Bird 169

Saw this little guy today. Almost didn't stop. Glad we did! Red-necked Phalarope.

Birds!

Here's some new birds I saw today. Some pretty cool ones, too!

  Black-necked Stilt

 Wilson's Phalarope

Cinnamon Teal

 Greater Yellowlegs

 Least Sandpiper

 Long-billed Dowitcher

 Northern Shoveler

Mute Swan

Everyone notices when even a young swan plows through.

Not new, but a nice shot of a couple White Pelicans.

 

Annnd some pissed off Snowy Egrets!

Anyone remember this game?

Just something I drew tonight while thinking about the good old days of Super Nintendo.  It's okay if you have no idea who this is. ;)

The California Condor

While in Burbank we went to the zoo to see these guys. They exist in the wild around here due to a breeding program, but this is very likely the only way I will ever see one of these guys.  

This is just a crow I laughed at. It was a really rainy day.

New birds

Four new birds I saw during my trip to SoCal.

 American Avocet

 Great-tailed Grackle

 Horned Lark

Cliff Swallow

Post to follow with some zoo pics!

It finally happened.

Look at her! She's beautiful, but amazingly she wasn't the most amazing part of the day. 

 Look to the side...

Babies!!!

 

 

Today was a good day.  Great Horned Owl,  new bird # 155.

"I only chewed on it once..."

Short-billed Dowitcher

Bird # 154 

New website!

My new art site was being worked on in private, but of course my mother found it early, so I'm posting it now. The old site ran slow so I just made it simpler to navigate.


Now the new art site might be old news to you, but did you find the hidden page?  I thought not!

http://cindymccluskey.com/birds.html

This is my lifelist. There is a picture of every species I've recorded here. I like to collect them all in one place and look at them. The preciousssesss.

Annadel State Park

We went to Annadel State park today. It was a long hike.

We saw bluebelly lizards.

 I thought for a moment I had finally found my Great Horned Owl...

But I was mistaken.

Only I would see a Bobcat before an owl.


And now for some real birds:

 Female Western Bluebird.

 Pied Grebe.

 A Red-tailed Hawk having a bad wing day.

Cormorants!

I just thought this was pretty.

Egon went to Spring Lake today!

Looking less and less like a baby every day.

Which is good cause now we get to start doing the COOL stuff together.

Turn off your speakers

If you wanna watch this video of an egret I saw fishing. The only sound is wind, so feel free to mute!

The ducks days of Spring.

Went to Bodega Bay and saw some birds. Saw some birds and got two new ducks for the Lifelist!

 Brandt's Cormorant is proving that  no bird can look noble at this angle.

 Snowy Egret

Marbled Godwit

Surf Scoters

White-winged Scoter (female)

  This is a Seal.

 

 Starling having a bath.

 

  Starling leaving a bath.

 

 Surf Scoter (female)

 

This is the NEW bird I am most proud of. This is a female Gadwall. I managed to have her IDed before I realized...

 

I also got a male! Gadwall in front,  Green-winged Teal in the middle (Another new duck),  and an American Wigeon in the back.