While strolling around the Doran Beach Bird Walk path, I saw this Great Blue Heron poised over the ice plant - until it struck quickly and pulled out a small mouse! Small flock of Canadian Geese at a pond in one of the Windsor parks
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The Brown Pelicans were diving for fish, over and over again, on a beautiful, clear afternoon following two days of rainy weather....
OK, these might be the trippiest birds I have seen yet...I think they are not very common, either...seen in the pond at Shiloh Regional Park, Windsor. Elsewhere on the property...golden-crowned sparrows join in the berry feast (below):
Large flock of small shorebirds descended on the shore along Bodega Bay Harbor A little ways off was a large group of Marbled Godwits, with the occasional Willet (gray bird in front) among them - Bodega Bay Harbor ![]() Female Kestrel along the road circling the harbor, hovering at one point over the field in search of prey. Kestrels also eat bugs - found this out today, after getting this photo - insects are a regular part of their diet, and they can catch them in the air! The robins have descended on one of the berry bushes in the back yard, they can strip these large shrubs clean of berries - once they start - within a few days! Below: The property's red-breasted sapsucker, a kind of woodpecker - in back yard. Usually only see them in the Fall and winter, drilling and getting sap from the Acacia trees. This one here surprised me and landed on the berry bush trunk, while I was getting photos of the robins.
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