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!
Male Hooded Merganser
Trumpeter Swan
Trumpeter Swan
Common Loons
American Wigeon on Policeman’s Creek, Spring 2018
Female Hooded Merganser
Lesser Scaup
Mallard
Mallard
Harlequin Ducks
Mallard
Mallard Hen
Pied-billed Grebe
Northern Shoveler, male
Pink-footed Goose
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
Barred Owl
Long-eared Owlets
Great-horned Owl
Northern Pygmy Owl – not the same individual
Rock Pigeon
Flammulated Owl
Great-horned Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Northern Flicker & Downy Woodpecker
Acorn Woodpecker
A young Nuttal’s Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
American Three-toed Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Hammond’s Flycatcher
Cedar Waxwing
Black Pheobe
Eastern Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird
Gyrfalcon fly-by
GYR!!
Eastern Kingbird
Preening Merlin
Common Raven
Clark’s Nutcracker
Black-billed Magpie
Grey Jay
Blue-headed Vireo
Clark’s Nutcracker
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!