The last time I talked about wrens was in 2015 so what about a revisit. What’s nice about Wrens is they are bold, chatty, will get in your face when you are in their territory, and they will sit still. The Pacific Wren is very common in my old home of Santa Cruz, CA but on the east side of Sierras you need to know where to find them.
I saw my first Hutton’s Vireo on Aug 31 2008 near my home in the Santa Cruz Mountains, which was about 5 miles north of Boulder Creek, California. The Hutton’s Vireo is a common resident along the Pacific Coast and western Sierras so I had seen many each spring; however, it is a rare bird for Washoe County in northwest Nevada.
One of my favorite birds, besides the one in my lens view, is the Sandhill Crane. I saw my first in eastern Florida where I watched a pair of immature with their mom. This pair I first saw out of the corner of my eye when rounding the south end of Washoe Lake.
It was a good year for photography at least. Below I saw this White-faced Ibis perched on this stump on a bird walk around the Diamond Creek Pond in south Reno, NV. I have continued to use the 1.4 telaconverter, which extends my 500mm lens to 700mm.
Moving from the Santa Cruz Mountains in California to Reno, NV one of the first animals I encounter were the Wild Horses or Mustangs. Hidden Valley is located on the western side of the Virginia Range, which forms the Washoe Valley with the Sierras to the west.
