September 20, 2008: Batavia Wastewater Treatment Plant Birding

Today we did some birding at the Batavia Wastewater Treatment Plant (info). Got some nice photos - it was surprisingly active.

Wood Duck
Common Moorhen
Yellow-Rumped Warbler
juv. Cedar Waxwing

Flying Double Crested Cormorants

Black Ducks and Ruddy

Whimberel (nice flight shot below)

Ruddy Duck

Double Crested Cormorant

Flying Black Ducks and Mallards

Flying Wood Duck

Northern Shoveler

BATAVIA WWTP (INTERACTIVE LOCATION)

August 8, 2008: Birding around San Diego, California

I did some last minute birding in the immediate San Diego vicinity, before the red-eye flight home. Also stopped at Cabrillo National Monument.

San Diego skyline from Cabrillo NM
Above and Below: Cabrillo National Monument

The lighthouse at Cabrillo NM
Above and below: Scrub Jay photos from the monument

Forster's Tern (7th Street in Imperial)

Gadwall at 7th Street

Black Bellied Plovers at Delta Beach, San Diego

(photos below also from Delta Beach)

A Forester's Tern flying over a group of pipers

Black Bellied Plover

Flying Marbled Godwit

Marbled Godwits

Black Bellied Plover

Flyover tern with fish

Long-Billed Curlew (above and below)

A Long-Billed Curlew resting

Marbled Godwits flying (above and below)

Black Bellied Plover (above and below)

Pipers at the mouth of San Diego river

Pipers and Snowy Egret on the San Diego River

Flyover Brown Pelicans on Sunset Beach

Ice Plants at Sunset Beach (above and below)

Western Gull at Imperial Beach

TODAY'S LOCATIONS (INTERACTIVE)

August 3, 2008: Birding San Diego County, California

Spent another day birding with BJ Stacey. We started the day birding further east in San Diego County, out in the Cleveland National Forest Area. Then he showed me some places in South Bay in Imperial Beach, and we went to Delta Beach on Coronado for the rare Red-Necked Stint. We saw it, but it was too far for me to get a photo! Another lifer we saw was a California Thrasher, but I also missed the photo of that!

Kitchen Creek Road in Cleveland NF, East San Diego County (Link) Above and Below: Rufous Crowned Sparrow

Some cool trees
Phainopepla (above and below)

Western Scrub Jay Orange Crowned Warbler

Photos from the Cibbets Flat Campground area on the road Blue Darter Steller's Jay

Western Tanager

Above and Below: Lawrence's Goldfinches

Nice Jimson Weed shot

Pacific Slope Flycatcher

Cholla

Band-Tailed Pigeon (Descanso, Calif.)

Cuyamaca Rancho State Park (Paso Picacho Campground) (link)

Above and Below: Pygmy Nuthatch

White-Breasted Nuthatch Say's Phoebe

American Crow

Above and Below: California Ground Squirrel

Pacific Slope Flycatcher

Acorn Woodpecker

White-Headed Woodpecker

Behr's Metalmark

South Bay - Imperial Beach (link)

Willet

Savannah Sparrows

Double-Crested Cormorant

Little Blue Heron

Delta Beach - Silver Strand Highway - San Diego (Bayside) (link)

Part of this area is restricted, for the endangered Least Tern

Jackrabbit

A varied group of sandpipers

Long-Billed Curlew

Black-Bellied Plover

Marbled Godwit and Short Billed Dowitcher

Lesser Yellowlegs and Wilson's Phalaropes

A view of San Diego from the beach

Flyover Western Gull

A worn looking Lesser Yellowlegs
San Diego River Channel Birding

Whimberel

Snowy Egret

TODAY'S LOCATIONS (INTERACTIVE)