Baskett Slough 9/26/09

Tracey and I traveled o Monmouth to visit our daughter Saturday.  We enjoyed a great lunch with Niclole and her dorm mate Tiffany at the "Pink House Cafe" in Independence.  After blowing our wad on school books, we decided a trip to Baskett Slough NWR was in order.  Pretty slim pickens there, we got to see the Great Egret that always seems to be there, what a camera hog this one is!  He could care less if you are there.  Beside him, there was a mixed flock of approximately 40 Short and Long Nosed Dowtchers feeding and chattering in the shallows of the mud flats.  other than that, just the usual plethora of lesser gold finches and thirty or so crows feeding in the fields.