Photo ABCs

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Here I share photos of birds, travel, sports and people (mostly birds).

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I will have another (my fifth) solo show of bird photography at the Mission Trails Regional Park Visitor Center Gallery in Santee, California, from October 22 through December 2 of 2022. Details will follow when the time approaches.

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Social Flycatcher

The Social Flycatcher is like a miniature Great Kiskadee, with a smaller bill and without the rufous on the wings and tail.

Here is one in Tepic's Ecological Park Tachi'í:

Great Kiskadee

Walking through the Ecological Park Tachi'í in Tepic, Nayarit, there was a near-constant background of Great Kiskadees saying their name "kiss-ka-dee!"

They spent most of the time perched high in the trees, though this one perched at eye-level long enough for a photo:

Tropical Kingbird

In May of this year I drove through western Mexico, with the goal of visiting two birding areas I had not previously visited: Tepic, the capital of Nayarit, and the Tufted Jay preserve in the mountains east of Mazatlán. I also returned to one of my favorite spots in Mexico, the picturesque Laguna Santa Maria del Oro, a volcanic lake also in the state of Nayarit.

While in Tepic, I visited the Tachi'í Ecological Park one afternoon as well as the following morning.

The park, formed by part of the Mololoa River, lived up to its billing as a bird sanctuary.

Over the next few days I'll be posting photos from the park.

Here is a Tropical Kingbird, perched over the river:

 

Western Meadowlark

A Western Meadowlark, perched alongside the highway in the Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge. Photographed in November, 2018.

I'm outa' here!

Red-tailed Hawk

A Red-tailed Hawk perches next to the highway in the Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge, south of Maricopa, California.

Squirrel Cuckoo

Don't you love the name Squirrel Cuckoo?

Though I have seen and photographed a number of these birds during my travels through Mexico, the closest I have been to one was while walking the streets of Xilitla, a town in the Sierra Huasteca, in the mountains south of San Luis Potosí.

Photographed in October, 2018.

White-crowned Sparrow

A White-crowned Sparrow, photographed just before sunset at Guajome Regional Park in Escondido, California, in October, 2018.

California Thrasher

A California Thrasher, photographed in Guajome Regional Park in Escondido, California, in October, 2018.

Northern Flicker

A Northern Flicker, photographed in Idyllwild in July, 2018.

White-headed Woodpecker

A White-headed Woodpecker, photographed near Yuba Pass, in the California Sierras, in June, 2014.