Cyanocitta

Cyanocitta, 12 days ago to Bloomscrolling

Warm Tuesday morning going up to the high 90F today. First Lily in the pond blooming.

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Cyanocitta, 13 days ago to Birds

Very gusty and cloudy birding up above the Hat Creek Rim today. Did manage to track down a calling Blue-gray Gnatcatcher in a protected wooded area.

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Cyanocitta, 14 days ago to Birds

Doing work in the yard this morning and photographed some hummingbirds. Here a young Anna's feeding on a yellow Kniphofia "Poker" blossom.

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Cyanocitta, 17 days ago to Birds

A Sage Thrasher photograph taken yesterday in the Madeline Plains in Lassen County.

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Cyanocitta, 30 days ago to Birds

A first spring male Lazuli Bunting from this morning's warm birding walk at the local wastewater treatment plant.

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Cyanocitta, 1 month ago to Birds

Went up to Lassen Volcanic National Park this morning to escape the heat. Photographed this White-headed Woodpecker.

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Cyanocitta, 1 month ago to Birds

A Common Raven calling as I was eating lunch at Lassen Volcanic National Park today.

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Cyanocitta, 1 month ago to Birds

A Great Blue Heron and breakfast this morning at the local suburban lake.

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Cyanocitta, 1 month ago to Birds

Some spring migrant color from this morning's birding along Clear Creek upstream of Whiskeytown Lake. A Lazuli Bunting and a Western Tanager.

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A Western Tanager is perched in an oak tree. The bird is a male with a scarlet red head, yellow body and black wings with yellow bars.

Cyanocitta, 1 month ago to Birds

A House Wren from this morning's walk along the Sacramento River. A cool cloudy morning.

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Cyanocitta, 1 month ago to Birds

A nice gem from this morning's birding around Hat Creek, a Mountain Bluebird.

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Cyanocitta, 1 month ago to Birds

A curious and vocal Wilson's Warbler this morning in an oak tree in the yard.

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A Wilson's Warbler is perched on an oak twig singing with its head up. The small bird is mostly yellow with a black cap and eye, the tail is gray.

Cyanocitta, 1 month ago to Birds

A pair of Black-necked Stilts from this morning's birding.

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Cyanocitta, 2 months ago to Birds

Warblers starting to come through the yard. Just saw the FOS Wilson's Warbler this evening.

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Cyanocitta, 2 months ago to Birds

Cool and wet walk this morning, photograph of a Common Yellowthroat almost looking tropical and not NorCal.

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Cyanocitta, 2 months ago to Birds

A Bullock's Oriole in the sunshine from this morning's walk.

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Cyanocitta, 2 months ago to Birds

Out again this morning along Parkville Road, and another shot of a Lewis's Woodpecker.

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Cyanocitta, 2 months ago to Birds

A 'Myrtle' Yellow-rumped Warbler with a bug from this morning's outing.

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Cyanocitta, 2 months ago to Birds

A couple of shots from this morning's sunny and cool walk in the neighborhood-

Western Bluebird
Yellow-rumped Warbler

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A male Yellow-rumped Warbler is perched on a budding oak twig. The warbler has a sharp bill, a broken white eye-ring, yellow throat and rump, black and white streaked wings and breast.

Cyanocitta, 2 months ago to Birds

A drake Wood Duck strutting across the sidewalk around the local suburban lake this morning.

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Cyanocitta, 2 months ago to random

A couple more photographs of Pipevine Swallowtail butterflies from this morning's walk along Clear Creek. These showing the underwing patterns as they feed on Manzanita nectar.

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A Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly is feeding on Manzanita nectar. The underwing is seen with prominent orange spots on iridescent blue.

Cyanocitta, 2 months ago to Birds

A Red-shouldered Hawk from this morning's walk around the local suburban lake.

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Cyanocitta, 3 months ago to Bloomscrolling

Wildflowers with Mt Shasta in the distance, view looking due north from this morning's hike on Iron Canyon Trail.

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Cyanocitta, 3 months ago to Birds

A Potpourri of items from this morning's walk-

Poison Oak leafing out
A Dragon's head being applied for lantern festival
A Golden-crowned Sparrow in the grass
A Northern Flicker in the grass

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A large dragon head is hanging from a lift as a worker stands inside the neck where the head is going to be placed.
A Golden-crowned Sparrow is in green dew covered grass.
A Northern Flicker is in dew covered grass.

Cyanocitta, 3 months ago to Birds

Wet, cold and tough birding and photography conditions this morning along the Sacramento River. An Osprey near Keswick Dam and an Acorn Woodpecker at Shasta Lake.

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An Acorn Woodpecker on an Oak tree trunk.