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Yellow-crowned Night-heron in tree
Yellow-crowned Night-heron in tree 		Yellow-crowned Night-heron and Great Blue Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-heron and Great Blue Heron		 Yellow-crowned Night-heron
Yellow-crowned Night-heron		 Yellow-crowned Night-heron flying back to tree
Yellow-crowned Night-heron flying back to tree
Nuttall's Woodpecker foraging on palm
Nuttall's Woodpecker foraging on palm		 Starlings drinking
Starlings drinking		 Caspian Tern with fish
Caspian Tern with fish		 Sonoran bumble bee
Sonoran bumble bee
Nazca Booby returns to end of jetty
Nazca Booby returns to end of jetty		 Nazca Booby
Nazca Booby 		Nazca Booby
Nazca Booby		 Nazca Booby sleep
Nazca Booby sleep

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Trude30-Jul-2019 00:33
There was a report of a Nazca Booby at the Dana Point jetty and it stayed for several days. This bird is normally found on the Galapagos but sometimes is seen offshore Southern California. Since camp was over and I didn't have to take a pelagic trip to see it, we went. Lots of birders with scopes, binoculars, and cameras but no bird. While waiting, I saw a Yellow-crowned Night-heron, a LIFE bird for me! We went to lunch and returned to the jetty where a flock of birders were tightly packed and looking in one direction. Success! LIFE bird number two for the day: Nazca Booby. Birding can be fun!
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