Diane Stevens, Vancouver, took this photo of sandhill cranes rising in the air with Mount St. Helens in the background at Frenchman’s bar in Vancouver, recently. Stevens wrote hundreds of the cranes, which come to town each year about this time, were in a field and that something spooked them.
Photo by Diane Stevens
Wayne Lindberg of Battle Ground submitted this photo of a short-eared owl taking a gander around at the Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge recently. Do you have a photo you have taken that you would like considered for publication? Email your high-resolution jpg submission, along with your name, city of residence and where and when the photo was taken, to news@thereflector.com.
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Seen from the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge’s River S Unit, the ridge along the bank of Lake River, as well as oak-filled fields, fill the protected landscape. With enough rain, small ponds and lakes will fill the fields in the low spots of the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge.
Photo by Cade Barker
A brown creeper creeps its way up the side of a tree at the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge on Nov. 14. Brown creepers search for small insects and spiders by hitching upward in a spiral around tree trunks and limbs, according to allaboutbirds.org.
Photo by Cade Barker
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