Place: Fun days at Santee lakes regional park.....

We visited this fabulous place today....Santee lakes regional park.....barely 7 miles from home...and it houses as many as 7 lakes!!! Kind of oasis in parched San Diego weather...
Keeping with the fall season, the cottonwoods, sycamores, mulberries and willows were blazing!

The park brochure says as many as 175 species of birds flock to the lakes...if not that many, we got to see at least 12-15 varieties.....mallards, coots, American wigeons, wood ducks, snowy egrets, great egrets, blue herons, sparrows, cormorants, gulls...
Here my spouse is feeding the waterfowls....

This beautiful pair of wood duck was among the mob..

A flush of mallards...

It was funny to spot a dozen of wood ducks perched on this metal frame...

The floating cabins by the 7th lake, behind the veil of cattails...

 
Looks like ideal weekend getaway..

Back-lit landscape..I could not help admire the golden attire of the cottonwood...

Enjoyed sycamore leaf picking ....

mistletoe spotting....

and riding bike along the  numerous paved paths traversing the lawns and lakes....

It was a perfect fall weekend outing..........

We visited this amazing place yet again in summer.........landscape has certainly changed, keeping with change of season.....

Lots of cattails......