Yes, Bolsa Chica again. It looked wonderful under a brooding winter sky.
Upon reflection…
Category: bolsa chica wetlands
On a clear day, you can see…
…to the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. About a dozen miles off maybe? Pretty good visibility!
Gonna be a skimpy month, but anyway…
I went to Bolsa Chica…surprise surprise!!!!
Trying out the panorama lens at Bolsa Chica…
…and again.
It was clear enough to see the colors and contours of the foothills.
Mr. and Mrs. Surf Scoter enjoying an outing.
American widgeon…I think.
December at the wetlands…
Brown pelican.
Pelican in flight…
There have been quite a few pelicans at the wetlands recently.
I think they look like dinosaurs.
It’s almost “weather”!
I was out at the wetlands to get a view of some of the airshow.
It was a tad threatening.
It started to rain so they delayed the show. Nice view of Catalina.
Air show over the wetlands…
Enjoying some of the action…
…without being close enough to be in danger when something inevitably goes wrong.
Bolsa Chica, October 2023
Great egret…
Some yellow stuff (I’m not as interested in knowing what plants are as I am about animals)…
Some red stuff…
Black vulture…
It got pretty close…
I mean like really close…
On a different day when the sun was out…
Great blue heron…
Look at that face. And they say that dinosaurs are extinct….
Is that really what I look like?
It’s something I ask myself every morning…
August at Bolsa Chica wetlands…
No birds. Although there was a jumping fish that I never managed to get a photo of.
No birds. Although there were some butterflies that I never managed to get a photo of, because they wouldn’t hold still.
There was this guy, though. A side-blotched lizard, which I’ve never seen before. They are quite territorial, and he kindly escorted me out of the area.
Some day I’ll take the walk to the mesa. But you can bet it won’t be in August.
Bolsa Chica wetlands…
Not a good picture but the only birds I saw that day.
Cute little flowers growing in the gravel.
No fish, rays, or jellyfish either.
See? No birds.
Lots of nice flowers though.
Sometimes the wildflowers are enough.