March 2018 - Newport Beach, California

We went down to Newport Beach in order to sail out to Catalina Island, and stopped by a few other sites while we were there. We went to the Upper Newport Bay reserve to see birds (which we did), and then stopped by Mission San Juan Bautista, one of the original California missions. Historically there has been a big migration of swallows to the mission starting that very weekend we were there, however there were no swallows there. Sad day.

The Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve	An Allen's hummingbird, the preserve was full of them	A desert cottontail caught in the open
The Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve	An Allen's hummingbird, the preserve was full of them	A desert cottontail caught in the open
A cactus wren, fittingly on a cactus!	Another Allen's hummingbird	And another
A cactus wren, fittingly on a cactus!	Another Allen's hummingbird	And another
The sun catching a hummingbird's neck just right	The marshy land full of sea birds	Mission San Juan Bautista, one of the old Spanish missions
The sun catching a hummingbird's neck just right	The marshy land full of sea birds	Mission San Juan Bautista, one of the old Spanish missions
The mission chapel		An old stone chapel that was not earthquake proof
The mission chapel		An old stone chapel that was not earthquake proof
	The courtyard	A black phoebe
	The courtyard	A black phoebe
A beehive up in the church!	The old church bells
A beehive up in the church!	The old church bells