Las Vegas - Day 2: Sunset Park, Las Vegas (12/26)

On Tuesday afternoon we took a trip over to Sunset Park, an urban green space at the edge of the airport. In addition to the traditional basketball courts and walking paths, the park has one giant pool that apparently has fish in it (we saw several locals fishing there).

But the water also attracts lots of ducks. And, since they are fed by the people who come to the park, they are really tame. This allowed us to get great looks at ducks that would normally keep their distance when found on the lakes back home. There were Mallards, Wigeon, and even a couple of Ring-neck Ducks. Amazingly there were dozens of Redheads. This is a duck that we only see one or two of in southern New England so it was a real treat to see them up close.

In addition to the wild birds, there was also several different types of domestic waterfowl. There were strange geese from Australia and a couple of common white geese. We even found the pair of Ross' Geese that the local we met at Corn Creek told us about.

It was just about dark as we started to leave the park so we didn't find many land birds. There was one Red-tailed Hawk perched in a tree near the pool. But it was really too dark to find anything else.