Gualala Birds

The Osprey have been bonkers around town the last month; the adults and juveniles are screaming and eating all day.

This post will be short, but lots of photos of Osprey will follow.

Highlights

• Three new lifers
  • 201 – Least Sandpiper
  • 202 – The bitch Purple Martin motherducker. (I’ve heard this guy for over two years but never saw one until they decide to fly over my head for 10 minutes.)
  • 203 – Wood Duck – Of course instead of the beautiful duck, I get the male in drab escape plumage. But I’ll take him.
• Peregrine Falcon sighting; in town and later at the water destroying a western gull.
• Blue Heron walking around with a vole
• A wall of brown pelicans diving near Gualala Island… which led to my first semi-good Osprey catching a fish photo.