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| Western Bluebird on Oak Branch, Sunset Boulevard |
We woke up to a rare bluebird day in the offing this morning, so I brought the FZ80 along on today's walk, part of which follows the greenway along Sunset Boulevard. I'd encountered a lot of birds there last week but only had my phone cam, so I was glad there was still a good amount of activity today.
At the optometrist yesterday I had the option of getting my eyes dilated or having a retinal image made. Dilation was covered by insurance, but I chose to fork out $40 for the retinal image, and it was worth it. I could have stared at those pictures a lot longer. Looking at the blood vessels and whatnot suspended in the vitreous humor was like staring at a galaxy far, far away, except that it was a micro-cosmos built by the awe-inspiring biological genius of life itself.
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| Bark 'n Bluebird |
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| Blue Sky Bluebird |
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| Finch Nibbling Thistle Seeds |
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| Finch and Sow Thistle |
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| The Thistle King |
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| The Scarlet King |
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| Pygmy Nuthatches Working the Crevices |
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| Finch Beak |
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| Solitary Nuthatch |
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| I'm guessing this is also a finch, not a sparrow. I love that it looks so plain at first glance but is actually intricately patterned and has a nice golden hue in its feathers. |
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| The Norwegian-flagged Island Pride, an offshore support vessel, was heading out to sea this morning. That's a helipad on the bow. |
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| There were only a couple of surf scoters between the Cliff House and Seal Rocks this morning, and no wandering tattlers, black turnstones, or oystercatchers. Plenty of pelicans catching updrafts from the surf, though. I brought binoculars to look for the storied brown boobie out on Seal Rocks but did not spot it. |
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| Cruising Altitude |
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