Bolsa Chica Wetlands, Pacific Coast Highway, and the Pacific Ocean.
Prickly pear blossom…
Sparrow on the lookout…
On Brightwater Trail…
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January at Bolsa Chica…
…great blue heron…
…great egret on the prowl…
…it wasn’t messing around either.
Beautiful vista, with a divebombing bird just for good measure.
Coyote den, *right* off of a heavily used walking trail.
The view from the wetlands…
…Saddleback, looking good.
Looking for lunch…
…the struggle is real.
Bolsa Chica beauty…
Great blue heron, from a distance…
Little fence lizard by a big fence…
Looking toward the Brightwater Trail under a blue fall sky…
This month at the Bolsa Chica wetlands…
Greater scaup, in from Alaska…
YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!
Trio of brown pelicans taking in the view.
Clear water.
Go ahead and pass if you want, it’s too cold to fight about it.
Moon jelly! There were a lot of them floating around.
Snowbirds…
Not actual birds, the Canadian flight demonstration squadron, in town for the Great Pacific Air Show!
Here they are in action!
Poor Alfie did not care for the noise. At. All.
Obligatory Bolsa Chica photos…
At Bolsa Chica wetlands…
A couple of female northern pintails looking for lunch.
Cloudscapes.
We get so little decent cloud action, you have to make the most of them when they show up.