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Have 'retro-fitted' the highlights of each day's birding in California. The highlights are not the ticks or scarce species just the more memorable ones. I will attempt to add photos and audio as and when I can be arsed. At some point I'll write up the whole shaboodle in some form but don't hold your breath.

Presidio

Highlights: Hooded Oriole and the Clark's Nutcracker dip.

Bodega, PRBO and Lake Lagunitas

Highlights: Marbled Godwit, Black Oystercatcher, Black Turnstone and Rhinoceros Auklet.

Prairie Creek, Redwood National Park & Trinidad

Highlights: Marbled Murrelets, Varied and Swainson's Thrush dawn chorus, Gray (sic, again) Jay, Banana Slug, Heerman's Gull, Tufted Puffin and the huuuuuuge Redwoods. Probably the single best moment of the trip was 03:30-09:30 at Prairie Creek Redwoods, absolutely flipping fantastic.


You'll have to take my word for it but these are murrelets, honest.

Burney Falls & Arcata Bottoms

Highlights: Black Swift, Black-throated Gray (sic) Warbler and White-tailed Kite. I do believe Black-throated Gray is the best looking of the parulidae.

Bestest friends

Hey look! An owl and a duckling playing together, how sweet.

Modoc NWR, Devil's Garden and Tulelake

Highlights: dark morph Swainson's Hawk, Mountain Bluebird, Clark's Grebe, Bufflehead, Tricolored Blackbird, Killdeer performing its anti-predator distraction display, huge numbers of wildfowl and Coyote. Tulelake in the Klamath Basin was very impressive, absolutely rammed with waterfowl.


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Back in the land of the living

A week without the interweb or mobile, lovely. Probably won't get a mobile signal for days yet, so if it ain't an email I ain't gonna get it.

Woodpeckers and flycatchers were the highlight of the week just gone, will update properly when I get a mo, suffice to say Lewis' and Black-backed Woodies are sweeeeeeet.

North to Alturas

Highlights: Lark Sparrow, Loggerhead Shrike, Golden Eagle and Pronghorn Antelope.

Antelope Valley & Yuba Pass

Highlights: displaying Common Nighthawk and Common Poorwill. A nocturnal foray to Yuba Pass produced excellent views of Common Poorwill.