Smog Lake City

Today was very smoggy and tomorrow is supposed to be worse - baddest air in the country and our political leaders have no backbone to deal with it!

The birds were pretty quiet today at the refuge - except for the gulls who never seem to stop coming and going. A few bald eagles out on the ice and a bunch of GBH's around the running water looking for fish. The light was absolutely weird today if you included the sky in any photos - which I did very little of.

Looking around, a female Common Merganser was consorting with a bunch of Pied Bill Grebes, a GBH was hiding in the rushes, Murphy drooled on me when I laid down under some of the grasses, hoarfrost everywhere, a gull checked us out and gave me some more panning practice..all in all a very satisfying day.