Salton
Sea International Bird Festival
Page Two
Feb
14-17, 2003
Bob Miller
For Page Three click
here , Page One click
here
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thumbnail pictures for full-sized shots.
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American Robin
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Everyone enjoyed the sunshine for the weekend!
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This tattered Monarch was one of about 10 species of Butterfly seen
during the festival.
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Sunset Tour
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Great Horned Owl
nest!
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Would you feel safe nesting in this tree?
The small looking dark spot on the horizon is the closest tree and
it is the same size as the one in the foreground!! This tree
stands alongside one of the busiest roads in the Imperial Valley.
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Aside from providing a perch for hawks and blackbirds, and a few
twigs to heat a farm laborer's lunch, it was chosen as a great nest
site by a pair of Great Horned Owls!!
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Owl watchers
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Owl watchers
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The farm
laborers are probably trying to figure out why so many bird
watchers are so interested in the noisy Red-winged Blackbirds
perched above them!
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This GHOW
was so well camouflaged that some still had trouble seeing it in
the spotting scopes!! The nest is in the thick V, just above
the tip of the brim of the gentlemen's hat in the above picture.
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Great Horned Owl
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Great Horned Owl
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Sunset watchers
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The
"Blizzard of 03" had shut down the East Coast forcing
the Sutton's and others to lay over and endure shirt sleeve
weather and spectacular Imperial Valley sunsets for extra days ;-(
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Ugly duck (gull)
ling?
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Sunset watchers
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Having to
watch so many birds in such great weather with such wonderful
people...... yeah.... I think this was another great Salton Sea
Bird Festival!
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