April 2021 - Bay Area, California
Some birds (and a few other critters) from around the area. Many of them from our backyard, but a bunch from other areas of the bay too: the Santa Cruz mountains, the Mountain View shoreline, the Coyote Hills over in Fremont, and a few from up in Marin. Most of them were taken in the Spring of 2021
Some birds (and a few other critters) from around the area. Many of them from our backyard, but a bunch from other areas of the bay too: the Santa Cruz mountains, the Mountain View shoreline, the Coyote Hills over in Fremont, and a few from up in Marin. Most of them were taken in the Spring of 2021
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| An absolutely adorable pair of bushtits in our backyard | ||
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| Grumpy! | The one day that a yellow-rumped warbler visited our yard | |
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| A pretty gnarly looking squirrel | A nice, bright, lesser goldfinch | Catching some sun first thing in the morning. And a hidden surprise in the picture... |
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| Breakfast | A mourning dove stalking through the grass | |
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| A California towhee stalking through the grass | A chestnut-backed chickadee | |
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| Showing off that chestnut back | At the feeder | A brilliant house finch |
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| Breakfast time for the house finches | A hermit thrush, a rare visitor to our backyard | A pine siskin, another rare visitor |
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| A black-headed grosbeak, only visit to the backyard | A wrentit | A white-breasted nuthatch |
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| A Bewick's wren | ||
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| A northern flicker | The consequences of ants finding the hummingbird feeder. Whoops! | Beauty in the backyard |
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| A red-tailed hawk at the Mountain View shoreline | A California towhee in the bushes nearby | |
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| A northern mockingbird in the rising sun | An immature golden-crowned sparrow | A hermit thrush in a patch of trees |
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| A beautiful Canada goose, one of a flock enjoying the lawns | There were a lot of ground squirrels hanging out at the shoreline | A least sandpiper |
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| A small flock | A white-crowned sparrow | A ruddy duck |
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| A beautiful Anna's hummingbird | The Coyote Hills | A fairly large flock of wild turkeys |
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| One of these rocks is not like the others... | ||
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| A burrowing owl! | ||
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| I watched this Great Egret hunting in the grass, and was shocked to see it catch and eat a sparrow! | Swallowed him whole | |
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| A pair of American coots | Say's phoebe | Flight! |
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| A northern shoveler in between dives | Mr. and Mrs. Shoveler | An inlet jam pakced with shovelers |
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| Post-apocalyptic least sandpipers | ||
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| A pair of American white pelicans flying overhead | A golden-crowned sparrow | Showing off his crown |
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| A female | A California scrub-jay hopping on the cars at the parking lot | A tiny little bushtit |
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| A flock of them were foraging in the trees | A fox sparrow | |
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| A Nuttall's woodpecker | ||
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| A Forster's Tern | Coming out of a dive | Action shot! |
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| The namesake of the Coyote Hills | A newt in the Santa Cruz mountains! | |
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| _Really_ slowly walking in the cold, overcast morning | A beautiful red-tailed hawk | He's been banded |
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| An owl spotting in the south part of the peninsula! | Wait a second... | An orange-crowned warbler, singing away |
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| A spotted towhee. Relaxing... | And action! | A peregrine falcon soaring over the canyon |
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| A California thrasher doing its thing | A Eurasian Collared-Dove, on the tallest tree in a large canyon on the pacific side of the Santa Cruz mountains | A song sparrow posing on the trail |
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| A nice flock of shorebirds on the beach in Marin | Hanging out in the waves the same as any person would | |
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| A marbled godwit | Ittttcccchhh! | A whimbrel looking for a meal |
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| The whimbrel crew | The flock flying off | Out enjoying a hike on the peninsula, where many of these birds were seen |
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| Lovely views of Silicon Valley | Another hiking day | |