Exploring Coastal Lagoons and Wetlands

I've been off travelling for a few weeks but I'm back! This week I have been out exploring some of the coastal wetlands around San Diego and further afield, with a great selection of birds to be found!

In this episode…

New
Black-Headed Grosbeak - Pheucticus melanocephalus
Bushtit - Psaltriparus minimus
Great Egret - Ardea alba
Forster’s Tern - Sterna forsteri
Rufous Hummingbird- Selasphorus rufus
Cliff Swallow - Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
Turkey Vulture - Cathartes aura
American Avocet - Recurvirostra americana

Previously Photographed
Wrentit - Chamaea fasciata
Anna’s Hummingbird - Calypte anna
Brown Pelican - Pelecanus occidentalis
California Gull - Larus californicus
Song Sparrow - Melospiza melodia
House Finch - Haemorhous mexicanus

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[k.jespersen]

So many spectacular photographs and behaviors captured this time. Wow!

It was very quick, but I think you even caught the slight depression in the water surface when the pelican converted to ground-effect in the last second of loft before diving. That whole sequence was incredible.

The egret and turkey vulture sequences were amazing as well. The egret ended up looking fierce, and the turkey vulture looked noble, neither depiction particularly being something commonly associated with either bird. It's great!

And did you actually capture a hummingbird looking sleepy? Rare footage! 😆

Which bird was it that was singing? That was a good video sequence, and I like the companion photograph you took with it, too. It's often hard to visualize exactly what a bird is doing or looks like when it's singing, but your showed well some of the changes in throat shape it has to do.

My second favorite shot was the noble vulture. My favorite of your photographs does have to go to the swift, though. You captured the sheer zoom of their hunting lives. That's hard to do.

Thank you for sharing another video!