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Great Blue Heron flying with fish prey, a Cormorant watches its meal fly away.
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Great Blue Heron flying with wings skimming water, with fish lunch, "The happy heron"
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Caspian Tern catching trout
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American White Pelicans at Big Bear Lake, CA. Early morning grooming.
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Costa's hummingbird and bee. The birds and the bees!
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Costa's hummingbird and bee on Chuparosa flowers, Borrego Springs, CA, desert
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White-faced Ibis at sunset
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Cedar Waxwing with Chokecherries
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The Pollinator. Allen's Hummingbird on native Autumn sage (Salvia greggii)
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Allen's Hummingbird pollinating flowers (native Autumn sage, Salvia greggii)
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Allen's Hummingbird checking out the bath
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Allen's Hummingbird takes a cool bath
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Allen's Hummingbird
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Allen's Hummingbird feeding chicks on nest
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Allen's Hummingbird in rain, Allen's HB; "I'm singin' in the rain..."
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Hummingbird in rain, Allen's HB gets the downpour, "Is that all you got???" i
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Hummingbird in rain, Allen's HB in light rain.
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Rock wren eating a bee "Beereakfast?"
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Greater Roadrunner Geococcyx californianus, portrait, Anza Borrego desert
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Greater Roadrunner Geococcyx californianus running with prey, a Kangaroo rat?
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Costas Hummingbird on Chuparosa
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Snowy Egret on a very cold morning. Where's my darned COFFEE!!"
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Nuttall's Woodpecker with a mouthful of insects
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Nuttall's Woodpecker with a mouthful of Earwigs and other insects. "Got Earwigs?"
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Nuttall's Woodpecker, adult male feeding chick.
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Nuttall's Woodpecker, male feeding chick.
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Tree Swallow feeding young on nest.
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Red-winged Blackbird, backlighting from setting sun
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Red-winged Blackbird. Showing epaulets with a "song spread display" to attract mates and defend territory. Note, this one appears to be more of the "bicolor" variaton found here in SoCal.
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Red-winged Blackbirds fighting. Please see more of this sequence at http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=976305