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