My most exciting find...a black-crowned night heron! Yessss! It's belly-deep in swampy water.
A brown pelican, that was surrounded by gulls and terns in the town of King Salmon on the shore of Humboldt Bay...
A double-crested cormorant sunning its wings...
This great egret came in for a landing as I was photo-graphing a nearby great blue heron, at the Woodley Island Marina in Eureka, CA.
Ok, this is possibly a mature Calif. gull...
This looks just like a first-year California gull, but then there are 2-3 other gull species that look like this too. Naturally, a gull can't just be a gull.
Love the first photo of the nightheron.~What a lovely bird not a big lover of the herons we get as they have just cleaned my pond of all my fish
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Gulls are difficult to ID ! Great pics today
ReplyDeleteLooks like the gulls are both Western Gulls. The tern appears to be a nonbreeding Elegant Tern, not a Royal. Nice birds and pictures by the way!
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