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Brown Pelicans from last winter exhibiting full breeding colors on the right and non-breeding adult on the left. -0375copy2.jpg
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Great Horned Owl, Coyote Hills Regional Park. _MG_1564.jpg
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Lesser Goldfinch, of the green-black-backed mottled variety! -9624.jpg
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Eleven new chicks today. Total in the yard = 26. California Quail. -9064.jpg
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Our local backyard California Quail male, on guard. Five pairs hatched 15 chicks so far. -8624-Edit.jpg
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Nuttall's Woodpecker, adult female right, feeding fledgling male on the left. -6803.jpg
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Giving the caterpillar a spin, male Bullock's Oriole, Palo Alto Baylands. 1/500th sec.
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Showing the underside of the tail for ID purposes. -0435.jpg
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Bullock's Oriole, male, backlit and twiggy, as usual, before he goes in to the nest. _DSC9457.jpg
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Bullock's Oriole, male, Palo Alto Baylands, California _DSC8480.jpg
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for ID puposes only...looking for gnatcatchers, but it was pretty dark day_MG_8687.jpg
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Red-tailed Hawk, resting on one leg after breakfast._DSC8139-Edit.jpg
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Vole for brunch, I think it is.
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Female Western Bluebird, on the warning gas pipeline post.
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Steller's Jay, gathering nest grasses._MG_8623.jpg
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A fledgling has emerged from that nest in the yard. What is it?
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Black-crowned Night Heron from another angle. _7SC9393.jpg
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The Spiky Hair Do. Snowy Egret, Palo Alto Baylands. _7SC9330.jpg
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The LEAP into action, Snowy Egret, Palo Alto Baylands, San Francisco Bay Area._7SC9409.jpg
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Black-crowned Night Heron. _7SC9362.jpg
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Any insights? Do they recycle the nest material?
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WIND LINES. I think they block the wind for each other. _DSC6888.jpg
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