Photos From 2009

Juvenile Cooper's Hawk	Juvenile Cooper's Hawk	Snowy Egret	Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos)	Anna's Hummingbird
Anna's Hummingbird	Hooded Mergansers (Female and Male)	Hooded Merganser (Female)	Hooded Merganser (Male)	Black Phoebe
Definitely a Barrow's Goldeneye*	Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina)	Western Bluebird	Male Surf Scoter with clam	Male Surf Scoter preparing to swallow clam
Male Surf Scoter - Down the hatch	Long-billed Curlew	Red-tailed Hawk (Note the worn feathers)	Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos)	Anna's Hummingbird (male)
Red-tailed Hawk carrying nesting material to it's nest	Red-tailed Hawk "dumpster diving" for nesting material	Red-tailed Hawk carrying coot leftovers to nest (dropping a leg in the process)	Greater Yellowlegs going deep	Greater Yellowlegs looking for a meal
Greater Yellowlegs	Snowy Egret	Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)	Female Northern Harrier	Female Northern Harrier
Greater Scaup Female (Aythya marila)	Greater Scaup Male (Aythya marila)	Merlin Falcon eating unidentified prey	Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum)	Killdeer
Killdeer	Great Egret	Red-tailed Hawk on light pole	Anna's Hummingbird (male)	Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)
Female Bushtit (Yellow Eye)	Male Bushtit (Dark Eye)	Red-tailed Hawk, unhappy with me interrupting it's meal	Not a pretty sight...
Red-tailed Hawk beginning meal of unidentified rodent	Close-up of it's "Rodent Grabbers"	Red-tailed Hawk prior to it's meal	Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)	Red-tailed Hawk in thermal
Snowy Egret in early morning light	Bullock's Oriole (Icterus bullockii)	Cooper's Hawk	White-breasted Nuthatch bringing a grub to it's mate	California Quail (Callipepla california)
California Quail (Callipepla california)	Western Scrub-Jay	Steller's Jay	California Towhee	Wrentit
Great Blue Heron grabs a lizard (Cropped)	Great Blue Heron grabs a lizard	California Thrasher (Toxostoma redivivum)	Female California Quail	Male California Quail
Nuttall's Woodpecker	Four Male Common Goldeneyes, two watching & two performing	Turkey Vulture down on the lawn after a goose carcass	Hovering Male Valley Carpenter Bee	Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus)
Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus)	Female Common Mergansers	Female Common Merganser	Female Common Merganser	Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia)
Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia)	White-breasted Nuthatch	Canada Goose (100% Crop)	Low Flying Canada Goose	Forster's Tern (and a Cliff Swallow)
Forster's Tern	Common Yellowthroat ( Geothlypis trichas)	Common Yellowthroat ( Geothlypis trichas)	Common Yellowthroat ( Geothlypis trichas)	Common Yellowthroat ( Geothlypis trichas)
Peregrine Falcon Flyover	Peregrine Falcon Flyover	Black-crowned Night Heron	Black-crowned Night Heron	Canada Geese Goslings
Black-crowned Night Heron	Marsh Wren (Cistothorus palustris)	Marsh Wren Fledgling	Yellow-rumped Warbler (Dendroica coronta)	Yellow-rumped Warbler (Dendroica coronta)
Killdeer	Mandarin Duck	Mandarin Duck Closeup	Wrentit	Male Lesser Goldfinch
Northern Shovelers	Great Egret and It's Shadow	American Kestrel - Spreading It's Wings	Red-shouldered Hawk Flyby	Female Prairie Warbler (Dendroica discolor)
Red-shouldered Hawk	Immature Red-tailed Hawk at Wavecrest	Shrimp for Lunch	Fox Sparrow (Passerella iliaca)	Turning back to buzz a Golden Eagle
Yellow Warbler - NO FEAR - Bird Bungee Jumping	Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus)	Immature White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys)	Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos)	Male Northern Harrier
Male Northern Harrier	Male Northern Harrier screams at a White-tailed Kite that came too close it's kill	Northern Harrier and ground squirrel kill	Loggerhead Shrike	Peregrine Falcon
Ferruginous Hawk flyover	Burrowing Owl on West Laguna Ave. in Coyote Valley	Say's Phoebe