Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge — Sunday, Jun. 6, 2010

Southwest Washington > Vancouver Area

June might be Ridgefield's off-season, but there was still some wildlife to be found. As a tri-generational nature walk, it was heavy on the nature and light on the walking (because of our two-year old, not because of her grandparents). We found a break in the day's pounding rain and sampled the Carty Unit's oak savanna, wetlands, and old Doug fir forests and saw a bedraggled bald eagle, an immature great horned (we think) owl, and my favorite, the really, really fat Oregon oaks. I'd love to know how old they are. This is a great wildlife area despite huge patches of invasive blackberry, and I look forward to visiting when the wetlands actually contain waterfowl.