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