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