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| Hooded Warbler, Laguna Honda Open Space |
I'd just finished working on my blog, then comparing a couple of ebikes I'm interested in, and was just about to turn off the computer when I decided to check my Yahoo email to see if any of the folks from Bug Guide had ID'd any of my recently photographed insects. I also noticed an email from the birding group that reported a hooded warbler in the woods near Laguna Honda Hospital.
I looked up the bird online and saw that it was both cool-looking and way out of its usual range. I knew where the trailhead was, having noticed it on the first of March while on my way to Glen Canyon, so I figured this was a good reason to finally check out the trail. I had very low hopes of actually spotting the bird.
As soon as I got there and whipped out my Merlin app to pick out the area's birdsong, I was shocked to see among several of the usual suspects in the ID read-out, the hooded warbler! I soon found some other birders there who confirmed it was singing and had been seen just recently. I soon had a chance to photograph it from quite a distance, but I was stoked anyway.
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| Oops, nope. Lesser goldfinch. |
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| Just because she was there, I couldn't resist an Allen's hummingbird. |
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| This is what it looks like in there. |
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