Here's Manny & Bella, looking beautiful & romping:
If you look closely in the next two pictures, you might be able to spot the lizard that Molly & I found (most likely some kind of Alligator Lizard, based on my internet research).
There seem to be lots of these fun Redwinged Blackbirds - an obvious and easy to identify bird. Molly's small bird guide indicates that it's just the males with the red shoulders, but it doesn't include a picture of the female. It also notes that they are marsh birds, nesting in reeds and cattails (which is why we saw so many by the stock ponds), and flocking in the Fall-Winter-Spring.
Next up are some unidentified traces of animals: scat and bones. Best guess on the big scat is bear, based on it's size, the amount of plant material, and a lot of conjecture. The smaller scat, with it's manzanita berries, is perhaps coyote. There's a lot of that around the ranch.
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