Klamath Basin revisited/Tule Lake

Just returned from a 3 day trip to the Klamath Basin. I took 450 photos and have picked 29 of the most representative of the trip to post, so here goes. Coots on Orr Lake/ Mt. Shasta in the back ground

American Kestrel

Red-tailed Hawk

? possibly a Ferruginous Hawk

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Canada Goose

Western Grebe

Ruddy Duck

Gulls and ducks

Eared Grebe

White Pelican

Northern Harrer

Killdeer

Nortern Shoveler

Dunlin

Greater Yellowlegs ?

Northern Flicker

Mallards

Shoveler with Western Grebe

Veterans Park/Klamath Falls Or.

Egret and Blue Heron not always in the water

Coot

Pied Billed Grebe

Canvasback ?

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Yellow-rumped Warbler locals call them yellow butts

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Immature Bald Eagle

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Tule Lake/Mt. Shasta............................I lied, there's only 28 tha tha tha that's all folks.

Beautiful!

It looks like you had a good time there adelbert!

Lots of blue skies and sunshine too, you got some great shots with reflections in the water.

Thanks for the trip!

If anyone is thinking about visiting the basin I reccomend the site klamathbirdingtrails.com Three days is not enough time to cover the whole area, and you can go back through an area every day and see some thing new. I'm hoping to go back in January when the Bald Eagles and the Snow is there. The one Eagle that I saw on this trip was on the third day and I was heading home. This was th third time I'd gone to this area. I saw and photographed so many hawks (mostly Red tails) that I'M going to do a seperate post on them.

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Resin.... With any luck at all it will wait until I'm dead and gone, if not I will be.

Oh adel you had a great trip! That looks and sounds like a wonderful place!

Thanks so much for taking the time to post all these!

Looking forward to the next thread! Pelle :-)



Oh geez lets hope nothing more would happen in Cali. their having such an awful time right now.

The one I forgot........Bufflehead

Wow!! I'm knocked out by the great variety of bird life you see there!! Thanks so much for sharing these photos. With the exception of just a few I was unfamiliar with all of them!

lilyfantn Some of the birds are year round residents, but there is quite a variety depending on the time of the year

Adel: I used to go camping up in Bishop every year....I was too small then to even think about the birds. I do remember us catching lots of trout.

betterbloom..............there should be good bird activity along the Colorado River.