April 11, 2012: Driving to Pittsburgh's National Aviary

En route from Buffalo to Pittsburgh.. Some snow on the ground around Meadville!!

The National Aviary:

A pair of toucans

Steller's Sea Eagle

Bald Eagle

Scissor Tailed Flycatcher

American Golden Plover

Scarlet Headed Blackbird

A sparrow

Inca Dove

Above and Below: Blue Bellied Roller

Collared Bulbul Finch

Hyacinth Macaw

White-Crested Lapwing

Flying Blue-Bellied Roller

Golden Starling

Inca Tern

Wood Duck

Hammerkop

Flamingo

Above and Below: Common Grackle

Spectacled Owl

Above and Below: American Golden Plover

Above and Below: Steller's Sea Eagle

California Condor

American Robin

February 18, 2010: Birding the Salton Sea Region

Today I had some time to bird around the Salton Sea in Southern California, and got quite a few nice photos:

Around the Sonny Bono NWR Visitor Center:

Eurasian Collared Dove

Anna's Hummingbird

Gambel's Quail

Above and Below:  My first shot of a Barn Owl

Cattle Egret

Around Ramer Lake - in Calipatria

Above and Below: Wilson's Snipe

American Kestrel

Abert's Towhee

Northern Mockingbird

Savannah Sparrow

White-Crowned Sparrow

Salt Cedar

Clark's Grebe

Western Grebe

Blue Gray Gnatcatcher

Mourning Dove

Verdin

Pied-Billed Grebe

Sonny Bono NWR Unit 1

Northern Harrier

Greater White Fronted Geese

American White Pelican

Common Moorhen

White-Faced Ibis

Sonny Bono NWR Main area

Above and Below: Northern Shoveler

Long-Billed Curlews

Black-Bellied Plovers

American Avocet

Above and Below: American Pipit

Say's Phoebe

Ruddy Duck

Eared Grebe

American Coot

Greater Yellowlegs

Short-Billed Dowitchers

Burrowing Owl

White Pelican

Osprey

Double Crested Cormorant

Eared Grebes

Ruddy Duck

Brown Pelican

I was fooled by this field of fake Snow Geese!

Cattle Egret

Short Billed Dowitcher

Black Necked Stilt and American Avocet

Western Grebe

Lesser Scaup