This weekend I, along with a few friends, went to enjoy some rare warm weather and enjoy the sunset at Rock Point’s Thrust Fault. As we moved toward the cliffs from North Beach, I spotted a Red-winged blackbird perched on the edge of a small marsh. I am particularly fond of these birds because of their distinct call. Further up the trail a friend and I caught the somewhat distant calls of an osprey, a sound I knew all too well l from childhood memories at my grandmother’s river. The final species we spotted were a few Mallards. at first, we watched a pair of females calmly swimming past us. A bit later another single female swam past. These three eventually intercepted one another and began to fly at one another quite aggressively. I hadn’t seen this kind of behavior from female mallards before and found it quite interesting.