Birding in Southern California
9/30 - 10/5/2007

Santa Barbara and vicinity:

Western Bluebird

Western Bluebird

Acorn Woodpecker Larder

Santa Barbara Harbor

Black Skimmers

Red-necked Phalaropes

Ventura

Eurasian Collared Doves

Great Blue Heron

Off to Santa Cruz Island

Parasitic Jaeger

Windy boat ride

Island Scrub Jay (Santa Cruz Isl. endemic)

Brewer's Sparrow

Common Raven

Adult Brown Pelican

Immature Brown Pelican

California Sea Lions

San Jacinto Mountains

Vista birding

Vista

Black-headed Grosbeak

Green-tailed Towhee

Phainopepla

Pygmy Nuthatch

Birding the Salton Sea area

Long-billed Curlews

White-faced Ibises

Gambel's Quail

Burrowing Owls

Burrowing Owl

Salton Sea

American Avocets and Northern Shovelers

Male Avocet

White Pelican and Snowy Egret

White-tailed Kite

Birding at 108 degrees

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park

Black-tailed Gnatcatcher

Black-tailed Gnatcatcher undertail

Coachwhip Snake

Yaqui Well (Dry, dry, dry)

Laguna Mountains

Lark Sparrow

White-headed Woodpecker

Loggerhead Shrike

La Jolla Cove area

Black Turnstone (with Brown Pelican, Heermann's Gull, and Western Gull)

Black Turnstone bathing

Brandt's Cormorants and American Oystercatcher

Brandt's Cormorants

Double-crested Cormorants and Heermann's Gulls

Harbor Seals

Heermann's Gull

Wandering Tattler

Torrey Pines State Reservation

Not an Ovenbird nest

Who is peaking through the brush?

Wrentit

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