Friday, June 19, 2009

Birding Moments: Sometimes its just fun to observe


A parcel of birds from our last trip. There's always something to see and never enough time.

During our trip in May, we must have hit migration time for Yellow-rumped Warblers. They were everywhere, lining fences, flitting through trees.

We saw this pheasant near Princeton. Differently coloured than the birds we see in the Delta--there is so much variation in pheasants.

We couldn't find this California Quail at first, he was twenty feet up in a tree, calling loudly. Somehow the call sounded like it was coming from a much lower spot.


This Bald Eagle was feeding on a dead porcupine in a creek (can't really see it in this photo, but it's there).


1 comments:

lawnchairnaturalist said...

Oooh, I've never seen a quail! (well, one that's not on a menu that is...)