San Diego
Area
Aug.
24,
2002
Guide - Bob
Miller
A few hours and a lot of laughs with Brad & Sara.
48 species (list follows at end
of page)
Click on
thumbnail pictures for full-sized shots.
Great Egret
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San Elijo
Lagoon is beautiful in the morning. Common Yellowthroats were
very active but this Great Egret could easily have been a pink lawn
flamingo.
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We were hoping to get a look
at the reported Yellow-crowned Night-Heron. A young couple
was looking at it when we arrived and so it was almost the first
bird we saw.
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Yellow-crowned
Night-Heron
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Yellow-crowned
Night-Heron
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It then flew to right beneath the view deck
and I had to move the scope BACK to get close focus! (picture at top
of page)
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This Snowy Egret was an active feeder but not as
active as the Greater Yellowlegs that we tried to get in the same
frame. Got part of it anyway!
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Snowy Egret
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A Black Skimmer was skimming in the distance and a White-tailed Kite
flew over followed by an Osprey. We really got a kick out of
this wind sock sculpture.
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Sara & Bradley
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The magic looking
glass.....
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Looked and scanned for the Reddish Egret but could not find it even
with the magic binoculars. We then went over to the San Diego River
at Sea World and almost got put to work by San Diego Audubon as they
were doing a clean-up day on that portion.
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Looked like a great turnout of volunteers and the amount of
trash and non-native vegetation they had removed was impressive.
Sara was the first to sight the Little Blue Heron as it flew in. The
finest way to get a lifer!
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Little Blue Heron
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Heermann's Gull
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Least Terns seemed to have moved on but there were
lots of other birds crowded on what was left of the sand bars with
the tide rolling in.
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Quivira Basin gave us a few more good birds and the
comical squirrels. We had already made one phone call to stretch
their birding credits (daughter waiting in hotel to get moved into
her new college apartment!) and we got the most out of our extended
time but even that runs out.
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California Ground Squirrel
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