It is just as stinky here as when we came through in 2011.  The difference being this time we are just day tripping from Anza Borrego and we can put up with the smell for a few hours while we check out what feathered friends are around.  We see many of the usual waterside suspects plus a couple we rarely see; cinnamon teals and burrowing owls.  Gambel’s Quails scurry about under the wildlife refuge bird feeder their cute little top-knots bouncing as they go.   A large flock of snow geese moves between grain fields and a sheltered pool.