Cosumnes River Wildlife Preserve

The Cosumnes River Wildlife Preserve is a beautiful wetland full of a diverse variety of bird and other wildlife.  Today, Lizzie and I hiked the main fully-accessible trails, seeing sandhill cranes, hawks, geese, ducks, coots, and many many other birds.  Whether we had to halt as a group of coots crossed the trail....

...or were lucky to catch a hawk winging overhead...

Or perhaps only grin at the antics of bottom grazing ducks who went "bottoms up"  at the same time:

From little brown birds to exquisite ducks, the preserve has something for everyone.

These sandhills looked remarkably like their statuary depictions in front of the visitor center:

and the visitor center statues:

This is a place to return to many times again.