This tour will highlight several beautiful locations: Winters, a charming valley town, the Davis Raptor center and Lake Solano. We’ll start at the Davis Raptor Center south of Sacramento in the morning for ducks, raptors and woodpeckers along Putah Creek. At the center we frequently see Golden eagles, Red-shouldered and Swainson’s Hawks, Great Horned and Screech owls, among others. After lunch at the historic little town of Winters, we’ll head off to nearby Lake Solano. Surrounded by stunningly beautiful hill country, this woodedlake has a great variety of songbirds, woodpeckers and ducks in the spring. Commonly found species include mergansers, Bufflehead, Wood ducks, teal, goldeneye and Widgeon, together with grebes, cormorants, geese, herons and egrets. Woodpeckers usually include sapsuckers, Nuttall’s, Flickers, Downies and occasionally Lewis’. We usually spy a total of 40-50 different species. Great water bird and landscape photography.