Forum Birdwatching 2012

[joobie]

had some wonderful heron sightings today, but not much time to set up a decent picture:

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great blue heron (ardea herodias) taking off by philside92, on Flickr

not sure where that photo went - here it is again:


Untitled by philside92, on Flickr

and a new one for y'all. it's not the greatest wildlife photo, but i really like is as a photograph in general.


adult male red-bellied woodpecker (melanerpes carolinus) by philside92, on Flickr

 

[dasmiller]

Made it back to Bolsa Chica yesterday. I think that site gets better every year, there was a huge variety of birds there and I'm not even going to try to list them all. I have pictures of four species of grebe; no idea how many different duck species. There was an actual a flock of avocets (I've always like avocets). Didn't see the ibis I was hoping for, but if I've properly identified them (and I'm not at all sure that I have), then there were two firsts for me: Northern Harrier and Pacific Loon:


Northern Harrier flyby, maybe


Pacific Loon swim-by, maybe