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!
Female Hooded Merganser
Mallard Hen
Pink-footed Goose
Mallard
Mallard
Trumpeter Swan
Pied-billed Grebe
Trumpeter Swan
American Wigeon on Policeman’s Creek, Spring 2018
Harlequin Ducks
Mallard
Lesser Scaup
Northern Shoveler, male
Male Hooded Merganser
Common Loons
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
Great-horned Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Rock Pigeon
Barred Owl
Northern Pygmy Owl – not the same individual
Flammulated Owl
Great-horned Owl
A young Nuttal’s Woodpecker
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Northern Flicker & Downy Woodpecker
American Three-toed Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Acorn Woodpecker
Cedar Waxwing
Gyrfalcon fly-by
Preening Merlin
Eastern Kingbird
Hammond’s Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
GYR!!
Eastern Kingbird
Black Pheobe
Black-billed Magpie
Warbling Vireo
Grey Jay
Clark’s Nutcracker
Common Raven
Blue Jay
California Scrub-Jay, the first lifer of the journey.
I love your photos and your blog!
Nice blog
Great pictures
Fantastic photos! 😀
Thanks, Josiah!
They are great birdboy 🙂
Beautiful
Thanks!