California State Birding

Salton Sea State Recreation Area, Mecca, CA

Black-crowned Night-Heron


Chipping Sparrow


White-crowned Sparrow


American White Pelican


Black-necked Stilt


Costa's Hummingbird


Cactus Wren


Bewick's Wren


Green Heron


Earred Grebe     (Winter plumage.)


Abert's Towee


Great Egret


Red-breasted Merganser


Marriott's Shadow Ridge, Palm Desert, CA

Snowy Egret feeding in the pond.


Mallard drake


Great-tailed Grackle


female Phainopepla


male Phainopepla


f. Lesser Goldfinch


m. Lesser Goldfinch


Black Phoebe


Brewer's Blackbird


Brewer's Blackbird, female


Brewer's Blackbird - We had never seen one perched like this in a tree.


Female Brewer's Blackbird


Great Egret


Great Blue Heron


Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument Visitor Center

Verdin


Verdin


Lesser Goldfinch & House Finch


Big Morongo Canyon Preserve, Morongo Valley

California Scrub-Jay


California Scrub-Jay


California Scrub-Jay


Ladder-backed Woodpecker


Bewick's Wren


Say's Phoebe


Western Bluebird


Western Bluebird


Phainopepla


Phainopepla


Sunnylands Visitor Center and Gardens, Palm Desert

Say's Phoebe


Black Phoebe


Phainopepla


Northern Mockingbird


Yellow-rumped Warbler


Greater Roadrunner


Palm Desert Area

Cedar Waxwing    
(Joshua Tree National Park, Visitor Center, Twenty Nine Palms)


Cedar Waxwing    


Great Egret     (The Living Desert)


Palm and Tahquitz Canyons, Palm Springs

Western Bluebird


Western Bluebird


Yellow-rumped Warbler


Yellow-rumped Warbler


White-crowned Sparrow


White-crowned Sparrow


White-crowned Sparrow


Curve-billed Thrasher


Cactus Wren


Phainopepla


California Scrub-Jay


Northern CA

Driving back to Red Bluff after attending Al's 58th High School reunion, we spotted these five Turkey Vultures
perched on a dead tree.


Wild Turkeys near Sacramento


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