Look very carefully and you can see a flock of White-faced Ibises flying past the setting sun, returning to their evening roost near the Salton Sea. (tap or click to enlarge)
Photographed in August of this year.
It's possible that when this picture is uploaded to the web as a jpeg that banding might occur, which isn't present in the original...
A Dark-eyed Junco, photographed in Idyllwild, in September of this year.
A Great Egret takes flight, shortly before sunset.
Photographed at Bolsa Chica in September of this year.
A Western Grebe, photographed from a kayak a few weeks ago at Lake Hodges.
Another photo of a Great Egret, also photographed from a kayak last month at Lake Hodges.
A Great Egret, photographed from a kayak last month at Lake Hodges.
Most birders are familiar with Cattle Egrets. Well, there is a newly identified species, the Sheep Grackle!
I photographed these Great-tailed Grackles near the Salton Sea last month. Though only females are in this picture, there were also males nearby. The sheep only occasionally were disturbed by the birds, it seems that the birds were eating insects out of the sheep's wool.
I'll get back to posting birds from my Grand Canyon trip soon!
A White-breasted Nuthatch, photographed near the south rim of the Grand Canyon in early September of this year.
Though it looks like the bird was illuminated by flash, it is actually just rays of light from the late afternoon sun filtering through a small gap in the trees.
Another photo of a Black-tailed Gnatcatcher, photographed in late August at Lost Dutchman State Park in Arizona.
Another likely Rufous Hummingbird (female or immature), photographed at Red Rock State Park, near Sedona, Arizona.
Out of focus branches and leaves blur the framing of the bird.
