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