Seems like my several local Flickr contacts all have amazing photos of the Belted Kingfishers at Bolsa Chica. At last, I have a photo, in focus, in sunlight, with a blue sky, and uh cropped a lot. Check her out, Edward Fisher.
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Female, red-shafted I guess. One of the birds that continues to elude me. I thought I finally had it in the bag, but it went higher in the next tree over amidst more than one branch and twigs. I'll keep working on them.
Tags: Colaptes auratus Flicker Northern Flicker Red-shafted bird female wildlife Riverside California United States of America
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Marietta is the nation's first formally recognized Wild Burro Range. The burros roam freely near the ruins of the Nevada mining town of Marietta. This one was on a hillside along the road and I just creeped along in my SUV, shooting out the window, stopping and then moving forward for the best angle.
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The terns are back in town now at our local Bolsa Chica wetlands, doing their mating and nesting thing and the boys are busy carrying fish to their betrothed. Now far as I know, the Great Egrets (and numerous others) live there year-round. So, this poor Great Egret is just trying to do its routine daily fishing, but the terns (Forster's in this case) totally took over some territory. The egret just kept getting chased off every time it got close to the "tern area". Cool stuff!
Tags: BIF Bolsa Chica Forster's Tern Great Egret bird egret tern wetlands wildlife Huntington Beach California United States US
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I haven't done much wildflower hunting the past few years in SoCal because it has been so dry, but this past 2017 spring I worked at it a little. I don't see these Canterbury Bells (Desert Bells? Desert Canterbury Bells?) very often, but they had faithfully blossomed in a wash area near the southern visitor center of Joshua Tree National Park, an area where I have found them before. Nature is so cool.
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