These are my favorite photos from my birding time, in rough taxonomic order.
You may have seen these photos in posts. If you click on a photo it will become larger.
Enjoy!
Pied-billed Grebe
Trumpeter Swan
Female Hooded Merganser
Mallard
Common Loons
Northern Shoveler, male
Lesser Scaup
Harlequin Ducks
Mallard
Trumpeter Swan
Pink-footed Goose
Mallard Hen
American Wigeon on Policeman’s Creek, Spring 2018
Mallard
Male Hooded Merganser
Grey Partridge
Sharp-tailed Grouse Male
Sharp-tailed Grouse Female
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Osprey
Cooper’s Hawk
Bald Eagle
Bald Eagle
Ferruginous Hawk
Turkey Vulture
California Condors!
Wilson’s Snipe
Wilson’s Snipe are a common sight at HCR marshes.
Marbled Godwit
Baird’s Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Snowy Egret
Western Sandpiper
small groups of 30 – 50 sandpipers whistled along the beach, mere inches above the sand.
Green Heron
Wilson’s Phalarope
Snowy Egret
Wilson’s Phalarope
Sandhill Crane
Solitary Sandpiper
Great Egret
White-faced Ibis silought
Rufous Hummingbird
Ring-billed Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Heerman’s Gull
Immature Glaucous-winged Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
California Gull
Brown Pelican
Pink-footed Shearwater
Albatross!
Horned Puffins!
Heerman’s Gull
A Sooty Shearwater springs from the water
Cassin’s Auklet
A stark white Northern Fulmar rides the ocean curent
American White Pelicans
Forster’s Tern
Caspian Tern
Long-eared Owlets
Rock Pigeon
Flammulated Owl
Northern Pygmy Owl – not the same individual
Great-horned Owl
Barred Owl
Great-horned Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Northern Flicker
Great Spotted Woodpecker
A young Nuttal’s Woodpecker
Northern Flicker & Downy Woodpecker
American Three-toed Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Acorn Woodpecker
Eastern Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird
Hammond’s Flycatcher
Preening Merlin
GYR!!
Cedar Waxwing
Eastern Kingbird
Gyrfalcon fly-by
Black Pheobe
Clark’s Nutcracker
Black-billed Magpie
Blue-headed Vireo
Common Raven
Warbling Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Grey Jay
Clark’s Nutcracker
California Scrub-Jay, the first lifer of the journey.
Blue Jay
Cliff Swallow
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Purple Martin
Cliff Swallows
Mountain Chickadee
Boreal Chickadee
Black-capped Chickadee
American Robin
Grey Catbird
European Starlings
European Starling
Bohemian Waxwing
Cedar Waxwing
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle x Audubon’s)
Wilson’s Warbler
Baird’s Sparrow
Lark Sparrows
White-crowned Sparrow
Harris’s Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Western Tanager
Western Tanager male
Female Western Tanager
Red-winged Blackbird
Red-winged Blackbird
Red-winged Blackbird
Red-winged Blackbird Immature
Brewer’s Blackbird
Brewer’s Blackbird
Brewer’s Blackbird
Common Grackle
Common Grackle
Pine Grosbeak
Cassin’s Finch
Common Redpoll
I love your photos and your blog!
Nice blog
Great pictures
Fantastic photos! 😀
Thanks, Josiah!
They are great birdboy 🙂
Beautiful
Thanks!