After setting up camp at Big Pines CG in Yakima Canyon, we drove to Yakima Sportsman SP to hopefully see some baby wood ducks. Although we did not see any baby wood ducks we were treated to seeing a heron catch a small fish, several wood duck pairs, mallards, red-winged blackbirds, yellow-headed blackbirds, a kingfisher and a California quail in a tree!
We walked around the juvenile fishing pond where yellow iris were blooming along the edge of the pond and the many lily pads had yellow, pink and white blooming flowers! We had a light drizzle and a brief period of thunder and lightning, but the air was warm and the bird sightings and flowers made for a pleasant outing!
This is not a destination hike from Seattle, but is a nice place to visit in the spring and fall if you are camped in the area, need a leg stretcher when traveling or as an add-on hike when hiking near Yakima.
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