The morning light at the Madrona Marsh in summer is breathtaking. I go in before 10:00 while it is still quiet, and listen to the ducks quacking and the birds chirping... I look around and watch a duck happily eating breakfast nearby. Then she went for a swim and posed so that I could take a photo of her as she swam between the tules. I had my watercolors with me and did some quick sketches and color studies of the tules, ducks and songbirds. I was thrilled to watch some hawks above, and then noticed a huge long wingspan of a "?" fly over my head, and gracefully swoop and land in the pool (just to the other side of where the duck is in the photo above).... Unfortuantely, I was not able to get a good photo of this bird It may have been a stork? I don't know yet what type of water bird it was, yet, but it was amazing and beautiful.... It was long, like a heron, and will research to find out exactly what it was...
I did walk around more to find other birds, more ducks, and a white egret.
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