Birding

California Bay Area

An office trip clubbed with family celebrations made us pack our bags to San Francisco for 6 weeks. We stayed in Richmond, Marina Bay area and were gifted with daily sightings of birds. Meekers Slough, a mudflat channel along the Richmond coastline was our regular birding spot. We also sighted few birds in our treks in different parts of Marin.

Brown Pelicans, Western Gulls
Brown Pelicans
Anna’s Hummingbird
Turkey Vulture
Black Phoebe trying to catch something from the water
Black Phoebe
L – Great Egret; R – Great Blue Heron
Mallard(s)
L – Western Gull; R – Heermann’s Gull
L – Double Crested Cormorant; R – American Coot
L – California Quail; R – Brewer’s blackbird
Goldfinch
L – California Towhee; R – Spotted towhee
White crowned Sparrow
L – American Robin; R – Western Bluebird
L – Spotted Sandpiper; R – Willet
Long billed curlew
American Avocets and sandpipers
L – Whimbrel R – Willet
L – Grey Plover; R – Whimbrel
L – Acorn Woodpecker; R- Downy Woodpecker
L – Canadian Goose; R – Black crowned Night Heron
Blue Jay trying to catch an insect
Hummingbird Hawk Moth
Blue eyed darner

Aruna Fernando

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