Birdlife along the American River Parkway is sometimes a pampered bunch. Many of the gulls leave their coastal environment and hunker down here in the Sacramento Valley, when the Salmon are traveling upstream for the spawn. I live near the stretch of the American River the Salmon journey while completing their great circle of life. Pacific Salmon perish after the spawn. This sad ending for the fish provides great opportunity for the birds. They grow fat, lazy and complacent in the late autumn and early winter weeks.
I found this flock sun bathing in temps near 70 degrees today. There resting place is a shallow sand bar in an area of the river between Hagan Community park in Rancho Cordova, and Ancil Hoffman park, located on the opposite river bank in Carmichael.
These photos were taken with my little point and shoot camera. Quality isn’t the best. The Canadian Goose was not zoomed in. He was literally at my feet and was too lazy to move out of any imagined fear it may have had.
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