Sunset Beach Bird Tree: Fledgling Egrets and Herons

Notes.

Thanks to Carrol Wolf for telling us about the "Bird Tree" (located immediately behind Starbucks at 16470 Pacific Coast Highway, Sunset Beach/Huntington Beach CA 92649).

Cameras: OMD EM5 with M/Zuiko 40-150 F2.8 + MC-14 1.4 converter and iPhone 5SE

Birds, Beauty and Bounty in New Mexico

Silver City

Bear Mountain Lodge and the Curious Kumquat

                       Mexican Jay

Curious Kumquat's Chef Rob

Truth or Consequences

Sierra Grande Lodge, Elephant Butte Lake and Ted Turner's Ladder Ranch

Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge

Our seventh visit to the Festival of Cranes

It's really cold at 6 AM--see Judy (third on left)

Snow Geese at the Bosque too

Food Notes

Curious Kumquat
Amazing meals by Chef Rob

Ted Turner brought in renowned Chef Tatsu Miyazaki 
to oversee the Restaurant at Sierra Grande. Preparations

were exceptional--we ate all our meals in-house!

Frank and Lupe's in Scorro

Manny's famous green chili burger

at the Buckhorn in San Antonio

Cameras

Bugs on Flowers

Trying out a new camera lens at Mile Square Park's Nature Center in Fountain Valley CA:

Camera Note. OMD EM5 with M.Zuiko f2.8 40-150 mm

Our House Side Cliff Swallows

Thrilled to see the nest preparation and the three hatchlings. We hoped one or more would fledge, but one fell (or was shoved) from the nest and a second the day after. I did see the third in the nest, but now no signs of the last nestling or adults.

This nestling survived for a few hours after falling from the nest.

Camera Notes. First photo taken with a Canon 7D with EOS 100-400 mm IS. All the rest 
shot with OMD EM5 with M.Zuiko f2.8 40-150 mm.