Not a Beaver Kind of Night

I had a very busy and successful day today. Got lots of things done in preparation for our trip. One thing I didn't do though, was take any photos. As dinner hour approached I realized I wasn't in a cooking mood so I suggested to Arvin that we go out to Il Rinconcito for Mexican dinner and then stop at Scudder Pond afterwards to see if I could get a photo of the beaver. Dinner was yummy. The beaver did not cooperate. I saw him or her zip along the far end of the section of pond where we were and that's the last I saw of him. We stayed for quite awhile but he was nowhere to be seen. I did get a few not very great photos of birds and such. I fiddled with this one of a red winged blackbird in flight.