• Green Heron
  • Long-billed Curlew
  • Ridgway's Rail
  • Cooper's Hawk

    Cooper's Hawk perched at Bolsa Chica Eco Reserve on March 8, 2015

  • Great Horned Owlet

    A female Great Horned Owl and her 3 owlettes

  • Rock Wren
  • Cactus Wren
  • Nuttall's Woodpecker
  • Black-and-white Wabler
  • Black-throated Gray Warbler
  • Common Raven
  • Clark's Grebe
  • Purple Finch (male)
  • Purple Finch (female)
  • Marsh Wren
  • Cliff Swallow
  • Barn Swallow
  • Tree Swallow
  • Savannah Sparrow

    (Belding's)

  • Hutton's Vireo
  • Western Wood-Pewee
  • Ash-throated Flycatcher
  • Swainson's Thrush
  • Phainopela (male)
  • Warbling Vireo
  • American Kestrel (male)
  • Sage Thrasher

    Sage Thrasher at Bolsa Chica Eco Reserve in Huntington Beach, CA

  • Peregrine Falcon
  • Yellow-crowned Night Heron
  • Acorn Woodpecker (male)
  • Calliope Hummingbird (male)
  • California Towhee
  • Mountain Chickadee
  • Photo taken at Bart Spendlove Memorial Park in Mission Viejo, CA on March 13, 2014
    Northern Flicker red-shafted
  • House Wren
  • California Thrasher

Oso Reservoir, Rancho Santa Margarita July 30, 2016

A late afternoon visit to the reservoir yesterday proved eventful especially with the shoreline visible (typically submerged with higher water levels reducing any possibility of shorebirds). About 7:15pm I noted (11) Long-billed Dowitchers, (4) Semipalmated Plovers, (1) Greater Yellowlegs, (8) … Continued