american coot, bolsa chica refuge, huntington beach, ca I don’t know what has been spurring my avian foot fetish, but man, these are some cool feets. I was walking the far corners of Bolsa Chica and I startled a small group of coots, coming around a path bend, and most of them scuttled across without [...]
This is the first page of my bird list from my trip to Niagara Falls. Four intrepid birders (Starr Saphir, Lenore Swenson, Don Hill, and myself) headed way north to look for gulls and boreal birds, in particular a Slaty-backed Gull that had been reported at the control gates. This was a group of serious [...]
american avocet, bolsa chica ecological reserve, huntington beach, ca I never realized that American Avocets have partially webbed feet until I was editing this photo. I had assumed they had rail-like or egret-like feet, for no particular good reason. Shorter toes, though. If I had made a drawing of one from my head I never [...]
brown pelican, huntington beach, ca
