Photo: Diane Edwardson, January 9, 2013. If the duck has fleshy red welts on its face; it's a Muscovy Duck. (Click on photos to enlarge.)
Photo: Diane Edwardson, January 9, 2013. A flock of Cormorants was taking the sun in the middle of the river.
Photo: Diane Edwardson, January 9, 2013. They basked near the remnants of the sad clown girl graffiti on the west river bank, below the Sam Menlo-owned RiverGlen Apartments.
Photo: Diane Edwardson, January 9, 2013. If you're lucky, you can see a Great Blue Heron take off in their ungainly way.
Photo: Diane Edwardson. It appears to take great effort for these large birds to get airborne.
Photo: Diane Edwardson, January 9, 2013. Even flying low over the reeds, Great Blue Heron just seem like Pterodactyls.
Earlier this week, we took a walk from Atwater to the Red Car Property via the LA River. We've been publishing photos that caught our eye en route.
