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| Townsend's in Town |
I walked all the way to the beach and back, but only took out my camera within a block of home. On the way out, I saw a Townsend's warbler working the ivy that clings to a concrete retaining wall, but it got spooked by a passing car and flew away. I got a second chance when I returned about an hour-and-a-half later.
Meanwhile, down at Ocean Beach, all the sanderlings I saw last week had moved on. Looking back over the last couple of years, I've been disappointed by the lack of shorebirds down there. Back around 2007-08 I did photography at Ocean Beach quite often and encountered much more bird life, from sanderlings and snowy plovers to whimbrels, curlews, and willets.
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