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| Say's Phoebe, Balboa Natural Area |
What a pleasure it's been to be outside on a sunny and relatively warm day again. It feels like it's been a while.
My morning walk took me past the band-tailed pigeon tree in Forest Hill, and it appears that the birds are in fact nesting there. Depending on when they laid their egg(s), a chick could hatch as early as late next week. I only wish I could get a better view through all the sticks and branches.
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| Street Magnolia, Forest Hill |
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| Bison in the Sun |
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| Say's Phoebe With Vertical Grip |
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| The sunny day gave me a 1/2000th-sec. exposure, but even that wasn't fast enough to freeze the phoebe's wing feathers. Many of the excellent freeze-flight shots I've seen on Flickr are done at 1/8000th-sec, which is not an option on the FZ80D.... |
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| Black turnstones flee an incoming wave in front of Sutro Baths. (Click to view larger.) |
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| In addition to the black turnstones, several surfbirds were also foraging on the rocks today, while a group of nine willets foraged in the sand nearby. |
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| Bando had the Great Highway to himself. |
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| Lamp Post Leaper |
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| Until today, I hadn't seen any black-crowned night herons since the rains arrived at the beginning of the month. This juvenile was snoozing in a redwood at South Lake and only briefly opened its eyes, probably to make sure the human in the neon-yellow bike windbreaker wasn't a threat. |
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