This year Mother’s Day and Goose’s Day coincided in Lincoln. Mama Goose made it special when she took her new family out for their first foray into the pond world. Photo by Dave Cockrell.
Summer Tanager by Matthew Dickerson
Independent photo/John S. McCright
A bittern fishes in open water, making no effort to be elusive, in Lincoln at Beaver Pond on Downingsville Road. Bitterns are known to hide in rushes by sticking their necks straight up to look like a stick. Photo by Dale Cockrell
Great blue heron by Matthew Dickerson
Spring is in full swing, as was this wobbly chestnut-sided warbler seen crooning away off Downingsville Road in Lincoln last week. Photo courtesy of Dale Cockrell.