We slept in. I tried to be vewy, vewy, quiet when I did get up, not because I was hunting wabbits, but so that Min would be able to sleep longer. Eventually, we had to get packed and get going. We started with Pacific Grove Beach then headed towards Moss Landing. I took a fortuitous wrong turn and we saw a White-Tailed Kite up close and personal. He was hanging out on a telephone pole wire near some farmer’s field. Beautiful!
At Moss Landing, we ate at our favorite Mexican Restaurant: The Whole Enchilada. In the parking lot, a humming bird was zipping about. At first we thought it might be a new species, but nope, just another stunning little Anna’s. We got to see a lot of different birds even though we did not do any trudging (reference to a previous adventure where we ended up hiking through sand for several hours). We stopped at Elkhorn Slough, Kirby Park, Pajaro City and drove over hill and dale and around the twisty trail.
- Western Gulls
- American Crows
- Great Egrets
- Brandt's Cormorants
- Snowy Egret
- Brewer's Blackbirds
- Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon race)
- Heerman's Gulls
- Brown Pelicans
- Red-tailed Hawks
- *White-tailed Kites
- Ferruginous Hawks
- Anna's Hummingbirds
- Mallards
- Black-necked Stilts
- Lesser Goldfinches
- Avocets
- Eared Grebes
- Marbled Godwits
- Willets
- Say's Phoebe
- Sanderlings
- Greater Scaups
- Great Blue Heron
- Double Crested Cormorants (chasing eared grebes)
- Golden-crowned sparrows
- Hundreds of Least Sandpipers
- Black Phoebe
- California Gulls
- Western Scrub Jays
- American Robin
- House Finches
- American Kestral
- Peregrine Falcon
- Turkey Vulture
- Ring-billed Gull
- *Glaucous Gull
:)
Jenny
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