Pelagic (5)

Fork-tailed storm petrel


Arctic tern


Pink-footed shearwater about to dive onto the water

First Townsend's warbler of the fall

Hatch year male

Pelagic (4)

Western (?) gull

Pelagic (3)

Some mammals from the trip:

Harbor seal


White-sided dolphin


Humpback whale






Fur seal

Pelagic (2)

Yesterday four of us got on a boat, out of Bodega Bay, for a day of seabird (and other wildlife) viewing. It was an amazing trip, lead by Rich Stallcup, lasting from about 7am to 4pm. These birds were all new to the others and me, so it was incredible to watch Rich identify and call out birds from hundreds of yards away, as we worked to get our sea legs. Bird ID aside, taking pictures of flying birds from a boat was just as difficult as I expected but so fun, as they are out in the open and often getting quite close.

Black-footed albatross




Sabine's gull


Pink-footed shearwater

Laysan

More to come, but a quick look at a highlight from yesterday's pelagic trip with Rich Stallcup out of Bodega Bay

Laysan Albatross

Shollenberger

We went to Shollenberger park the other day for some shorebirds.

The Dowitchers are pretty neat when you look at them like this


...but terrifying like this


Greater yellowlegs

Caught the LAZB

First bird today was the bunting from yesterday.

Common Yellowthroat

Young male.

About to fledge

Lazuli Bunting

At Palo! A young male. Found and photographed (with my camera...) by Mark Dettling. Happy Mark?


A little bit of blue on the tail

40 something at Pine Gulch today.

Warbling vireo


Young vulture through the scope


Juvenile black phoebe on the last net run


Rufous hummingbird

Jay

Steller's

BARS

We banded this second brood of barn swallows this weekend

seems like a recond

24 birds at palo today

Scott and Xeronimo checking out the baby Steller's jay we caught this morning


Short bill, large, pale gape


Juvenile Oregon junco with a possibly busted leg

Libby releasing a hummingbird


Pacific slope flycatcher

I'd do this again

Bushtits

Male on the left (dark eye), nugget (no tail feathers) female on the right (light eye)

Adult male Anna's

Anna's


Accipiter


Bat