California : November 2009


The following images are mere snap shot of the many thousands I took during the two and half weeks I spent birding central, south and coastal California in November 2009. The images here represent some of my persona favourites with perhaps a slight bias towards gulls, due to priory reason of the trip was to study the west coast gulls.



Albino / Leucistic Gull species : Golden Gate Park, San Francisco


Belted Kingfisher : Morro Bay


Buffleheads : Bodega Bay


Chipmunk : Mt. Pinos


Clarke's Grebe : Morro Bay


Gambel's Quail : Sono Bono Reserve, Salton Sea


Glaucous-winged Gull, juvenile : Jenner, Bodega


Glaucous-winged Gull, adult : Salinas, Monterey


Long-billed Curlew : Salinas, Monterey


Marbled Godwits : Morro Bay


Mew Gull, adult : Golden Gate Park, San Francisco


Osprey : Morro Bay


Red-tailed Hawk, juvenile : La Merced National Wildlife Refuge


Red-tailed Hawk : Joshua Tree National Park


Ring-billed Gull, adult : San Francisco Bay


Sandhill Cranes : La Merced National Wildlife Refuge


Thayer's Gull : 1st winter, Bodega Bay


Western Grebe : Morro Bay


Yosemite National Park


Burrowing Owl : Salton Sea

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