Never have I ever

I don't know that I've ever consciously taken a picture of a female California Quail, but here's one.  I think she's pretty, though a bit soggy.  She was running around with 10 or 12 golf ball sized babies yesterday afternoon at Dogtown.

Best day so far

Today Amanda and I had a really great day banding at Redwood Creek. We caught a total of 41 birds, with 16 species. The highlights were 2 barn swallows, a tree swallow, a black-headed grosbeak, a warbling vireo, and mix of juvenile birds! We also ran into a female common merganser with 4 chicks, shortly before peeking into the hummingbird nest I found the week before, which now has two cute little raisin-like nestlings in it.

Female black-headed grosbeak


Steller's Jay


Barn swallow #1



Barn swallow #1, female


Barn swallow #2, male



Barn swallow #2, awesome tail, and with a couple of retained primaries in there


Barn swallow secondaries, very cool heart shape, which you don't see in other birds


Male California quail






All three of us, wearing hats


Tree swallow




Hummingbird raisins

Until next year #alumnigame

After an awesome alumni weekend with CUT, I somehow made it back to Cali in time for work today. Not much sleep for four days, but with 29 birds today we were kept busy at Pine Gulch

Male American goldfinch


Our first warbling vireo




House finch


Female California quail

California Quail

From my dad