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January brought some good birding, and a new life bird for me. We started off the new year with a new activity for me – snowshoeing. Of course, I had to take my binoculars along with me if we were to encounter any birds. While there, the area we went to on New Year’s Day didn’t offer much in the way of birding, but I did catch a new life bird – a pair of Black-Backed Woodpeckers perched in a tree at Hope Valley near Carson Pass. It took a while to identify them, but we finally did. The only other birds we saw were three Steller’s Jays. I’ve been in love with those birds ever since I first saw them years and years ago. I’ve always admired their blue body and black crested head.
We went to the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge, and what a day it was. I’d never been there before, and I had no idea what I was missing out on. When we got there, we did about a 1.5-mile, give or take, walking trail, mostly around the marshlands, but some of it was also through a wooded area.