December 26, 2014
For the Love of Ducks
![Waterfowl at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge](https://www.steventcallan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/WaterfowltakingflightatSacramentoNWRMOB-1-900x440.jpg)
![Waterfowl at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge](https://www.steventcallan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/WaterfowltakingflightatSacramentoNWRMOB-1-900x440.jpg)
Waterfowl taking flight at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge (NWR). Photo by author.
With the north wind blowing off snow-covered Mount Shasta, it was brutally cold that December afternoon in 1960. Sitting in the back seat of our family car, I spotted an enormous flock of snow-white birds feeding in the grain field on the west side of the highway.