Nine Snapshots at the South Coast Botanic Garden

 

June Birding at the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve

The parking lot and hiking trails reopened after Memorial Day...

Belding's Savannah Sparrow 

Least Tern

Great Blue Herons

Black-Necked Stilt 

Whimbrel

American White Pelican

Snowy Egret

Brown Pelican 

Common Tern 

Ridgeways Rail(threatened or endangered, not often found at Bolsa Chica)

Turkey Vulture 

Black Skimmer

Forster's Tern

McGaugh Red-tailed Hawks

Red-tailed Hawks have nested in the same tree over the years at the edge of McGaugh's school yard.

The coronavirus pandemic closures has made the school yard more inviting for the current cohort. 

Seven Days in May Sheltering in Place

While sheltering in place we have ample time for our "hobbies."
Judy's "art space" for watercolor and Dan's Olympus cameras and Mac
(with LG monitor) for photography. Yes, that's Judy decked-out in her pandemic gear. 

Courting Scrub Jays visiting our yard (male left and female right).

Katydid Nymph on our backyard Iris.

Top left photo taken the night before the Flower Moon with school playground

shade cover in the foreground  7:57 pm, first photo (top right) of the Flower Moon

on 7-May 8:23 pm, bottom left photo shows my location facing East 

at 8:30 pm, and the Flower Moon at 8:45 pm.

and keep your distance...

Stay safe, stay well

Flowers this morning...