Trip to Northern Cali

 No matter how you do it. It's all day to travel to where we go in California. We left Tuesday March 5th at 8am to drive to the airport. Then fly to Sacramento (about 3 1/2 hours). Rent a car and drive to Redding (2 1/2 hours). We get to our VRBO about 4:30pm. We settle in and make a list of items to get from the store after we eat dinner.

We brought two ladies from our church with us. Meagon who has come with us before and Michelle.

I do like the drive from Sacramento to Redding as it goes through farm land. Miles of almond and olive trees. They were in bloom this trip.

The conference we attended began on Wednesday night. However we went earlier in the day to check in and pickup our registration packets.

The weather wasn't as good this trip. It was raining upon arrival. It rained some on Wednesday. There was a break in the weather when we picked up our registration packet. Doyle said if I wanted to try to see the eagles we would need to go that day. We had a few hours before the conference started so I grabbed my camera.

Since we had learned about the Redding Eagles we have been following them on their Facebook page and tuning in occasional to their live-stream on youtube. There are eggs in nest which makes for a greater opportunity to see one or both of the eagles. 

Here is the nest. If you click on the picture to see it larger you can just see the top of an eagles white head about the middle of the nest.

I figured it was a long shot whether I would see the eagles switch to sit on the eggs but I hoped.

I was chatting with a park employee who was watching as well when we heard the eagle in the nest trill. We both started looking for the other eagle. Sure enough the mate was just across the interstate in a tree.

I got ready as I was anticipating the switch was about to happen.

Here the eagle comes flying right over our heads!

Making it's way to the nest.

I didn't manage to get the eagle landing on the nest. I was still pretty pumped!

We met up with our friend Kamilla.

On lunch break between sessions.

L to R Michelle, me and Meagon

Doyle with Michelle and Meagon.

The white capped mountain behind us is Mount Shasta.

Weather was nice this day. In fact the sunny days were while we were in conference! Go figure!

We had a great time. 

Have a good one!