My first trip to the Fazio Wilderness, and for the most part the wildlife did not cooperate with my need to take pictures- i.e., the sighting of the rare blue heron, while imprinted on my brain, is not imprinted on my camera because he was so shy about any human presence. I like this picture of a much less coy inhabitant (though I admit ignorance as to his identity) for many reasons, there is a glint of light on his beak - which is why I took the picture, his reflection in the water is glorious, in this parched California he is standing in water, and for birders, he is a harbinger of the magnificent influx of wildlife we are about to receive here in Northern California