Thrushes at Bennington Lake

We were rained out on Tuesday (although we did go up there and saw an osprey while we were sitting in our cars).  Today was much better.  The highlight was seeing two hermit thrushes and five varied thrushes along with about 20 robins. There were numerous waterfowl – shovelers, wigeons, mallards, gadwall, western grebes, green-winged teal and even a ruddy duck. The canal was filled with noisy white-crowned sparrows, song sparrows and American goldfinches.  Flickers were everywhere and downy woodpeckers popped up all along the trail.  Nice to see the birds out after the rain.  We heard a coyote singing, and then saw it running across the wheat fields.  Ginger