We drove down to Los Angeles for a family gathering on the weekend of December 10-12, 2010, and stopped overnight at Morro Bay both on the way down (12/9-10) and the way back (12/12-13). Birds photographed included a Black-throated Sparrow at a residential feeder in Morro Bay, a singing male Canyon Wren at Morro Rock, and Yellow-billed Magpies at a roadside rest-stop in southern Monterey County.