Birds -- Monterey Bay, September 2006 Photo Gallery by Tom Grey at pbase.com

Birds -- Monterey Bay, September 2006

I was on Monterey Bay just south of Moss Landing for 9/22-25, and took a good many pictures there over the four days, at Jetty Road, Moonglow Dairy, the small wetland on Molera Road, and on Salinas State Beach. Saturday morning 9/23 I took some pictures in morning sun at Point Pinos in Pacific Grove. The first two images here have some rarity interest; the rest are some that I liked of the standard local birds. Sunday morning from Monterey Dunes Colony I saw a striking red sunrise, shown in the last photo below.

Red Knot, nonbreeding plumage	Common Tern, juvenile, flying	Black-crowned Night-Heron	Black Oystercatcher
Black Turnstone	Ruddy Turnstone, non-breeding	Red-tailed Hawk	Marbled Godwit, flying
Willet, flying	Common Yellowthroat, male	Snowy Plover, adult non-breeding	Forster's Tern, flying
Red-necked Phalarope, juvenile	Brown-headed Cowbird, molting juvenile male	Whimbrel	Marbled Godwit
Sanderling	Willet	Heermann's Gull	Black-bellied Plover
Snowy Egret, landing	Snowy Egret, in fog	Red Sunrise

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		06-Oct-2006 00:31
Dear Tom, I am knocked out by the amazing quality of these pictures. When can we get reproductions? Also, is the Red Knot with babies? Best, Margo margoleahy@sbcglobal.net

Guest		28-Sep-2006 23:13
Tom- Thanks for posting your photos on MBB! I really enjoyed them. Neill Fogarty Sonoma County

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