Oahu
March 2021

Wandering Tattler

Red-whiskered Bulbul

Red-vented Bulbul

Rose-ringed Parakeet

Oahu Amakihi

White Tern

White Tern brooding

White Tern Chick

Yellow-fronted Canary

Java Sparrow

Saffron Finches

Chestnut Munia

Common Waxbill

Waxbill flock

Red-tailed Tropicbird

Sooty Tern

Pacific Golden Plover

Ruddy Turnstone

Laysan Albatross

Mandy Talpas, hawaiibirdingbabe.com

Bristle-thighed Curlew

Bristle-thighed Curlew

Bristle-thighed Curlew

Green Peafowl

Scaly-breasted Munia

Laysan Albatross

Laysan Albatross

Laysan Albatross

Albatross chick

Wandering Tattler
Albatrosses on Kahuku golf course
Mornings at the Owl Spa
November 2020
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Micro irruption of a single Snowy Owl in Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle



Barred Owl hunting, drinking, bathing and preening in our back yard








Winter Park, CO & Rocky Mountain National Wildlife Refuge
November 2020

Black-billed Magpie

Hairy Woodpecker

White-breasted Nuthatch

Mountain Chickadee

Pygmy Nuthatch

Pine Marten

Rocky Mountain NWR

Song Sparrow

American Tree Sparrow

Slate-colored Junco

Mule Deer

Winter Afternoon
Zion National Park
September 2020

Entrance to Zion

Woodhouse's Scrub Jay

Summer Tanager, male

Hoodoos, Zion Canyon

California Condor

California Condor

Townsend's Solitaire

View of Zion from Grafton

Sage Thrasher

Cedar Waxwing

Common Black Hawk

Virgin River at Grafton

Say's Phoebe

Vermillion Flycatcher-female

Loggerhead Shrike

Olive-sided Flycatcher

Pine Siskin

Western Bluebird

Tablet, Kolob Canyon

Mountain Chickadee

Ellie

Tortoise

Orange-crowned Warbler

Veterans' Cemetary, Mesquite Nevada

Condor's encore
Whidbey Island
Autumn 2020

Cedar Waxwing

Norther Harrier

Pacific Wren

Northern Shrike

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Long-toed Stint* and Least Sandpiper

Long-toed Stint*

Band-tailed Pigeon

Virginia Rail
Methow Valley—Pipestone Canyon
July 4 weekend 2020
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Pipestone Canyon, (north end)

Yellow-breasted Chat

Northern Rough-winged Swallow

Bewick's Wren

Bullock's Oriole, male

Bullock's Orioles, (female/juvenile)

Western Wood-Pewee

Spotted Sandpiper

Lewis's Woodpecker

Cassom's Finch ( female)

Cassin's Finch (male)

Eastern Kingbird

Western Tanager

House Wren

American Coot

Ruddy Duck (male)

Ruddy Duck (female)

Pied-Billed Grebe

Pipestone Canyon ( south end)

Self-cooking Turkey
Whidbey Island and Fir Island
Winter/Spring 2020
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Red Crossbill (male)

Red Crossbill (female)

Warbling Vireo (Seattle)

Bushtit

Townsend's Solitaire in our front yard.

Chipping Sparrow

American Kestrel

Barn Swallow

Whimbrel

White-crowned Sparrow

Mountain Bluebird (male)

Mountain Bluebird (female)

Western Bluebird (male)

Horned Grebe

Cooper's Hawk

Northern Waterthrush--Fir Island

Tundra Swan--Fir Island
Shorebirds with Jay
In the summer of 2019, my friend Jay Adams led a series of trips to observe the variety of shorebirds visiting Whidbey Island and other nearby hotspots. He and his partner Ruth Richards would comb through the hundreds or thousands of sandpipers in order to spot rare visitors that had strayed from their species' regular migration routes. With their guidance I was able to see many beautiful shorebirds for the first time. This went beyond names and field marks, as I've come to appreciate shorebirds for their unmatched elegance and supernatural flying abilities.

Ruff

Jay and Ruth

Ruff

Dunlin in breeding plumage

Black-bellied Plover

Western and Pectoral Sandpipers, Long-billed dowitchers

Least Sandpipers

Semipalmated Plover

Killdeer

Shortbilled Dowitchers and Western Sandpipers

Wilson's Phalarope

Wilson's Phalarope

Hudsonian Godwit

Hudsonian Godwit

Red-necked Phalarope

Red-necked Phalarope

Marbled Godwit

Wilson's Snipe

Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs

Dowitchers taking off

Dowitchers in flight

Pectoral Sandpiper

Black Turnstones

Surfbird

Greater Yellowlegs

Dunlins filling the sky in the Skagit Valley
Protection Island—Smith & Minor—National Wildlife Refuges
July 19, 2019

San Juans in view as we exit Deception Pass

Rhinoceros Auklets--Strait of Juan de Fuca

Approaching Protection Island from the north

North-most point of Protection Island

As expected, Pigeon Guillemots are plentiful

First look at a Tufted Puffin

Harlequin Ducks and seals off Kanem Point

A better look at a Puffin

Lots of Eagles, generational conflict

Seals in-all sizes and colors

If looks could kill....

Elephant seal

Bringing home the bacon

Tufted Puffin

Tufted Puffin

PGs sharing a bite

Gulls upset that only Puffins are featured on the Protection Island sign.

We saw 60-75 eagles on this trip

Rounding Violet Point, heading north

Good looks at Auklets here

Another Rhino

Common Murre

Where's this Cormorant going?

Smith Island

Bait ball

Smith Island from the southwest

Juvenile Eagle on the beach

Black & White: Cormorants & Gulls

A quiet place for Cormorants

One last Rhino

Deception Pass, Whidbey Island

The Sentinal
South Florida February 2019

Roseate Spoonbill siphoning up a meal

White Ibis

Purple Gallinule

Anhinga

Green Heron

Great Horned Owls

The Marshes--Ten Thousand Islands

Little Blue Heron in Mangroves

Roseate Spoonbill

Limpkin

Snail Kite

Mottled Duck

Wood Stork

Glossy Ibis

Red-shouldered Hawk

Spoonbill in flight

Reddish Egret

Gray-headed Swamphen

Black-bellied Whistling Ducks

Literate Osprey

Great Blue Heron and chicks

Painted Bunting

Ancient mural in Lake Worth PO
Kauai'i November 2018.

Japanese White eye

Mynas

Brown Booby

Rainbow Eucalyptus grove

White-rumped Shama

Green Pheasant

Great Frigatebird

White-tailed Tropicbirds

Red-crested Cardinal after bathing

Laysan Albatross Colony

Red-footed Boobies

Nenes

Common Moorhen

Neutered sign, formerly "the wettest spot on earth"

Apapane

Kauai Amakihi

Ellie-watching

Alley cat vs. Junglefowl

Laysan Albatross
Whidbey Island, Ecuador, and New Jersey. Posted October 2018






JJS
Captions, left to right:
Row 1: Northern Pintail; Falconer presenting his Great Horned Owl, Solomena; Pileated Woodpecker on a regular visit to my yard;
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