When: April 2015 Weather: Cool, 18-20C
Sony A55 70-400G. Leica M240/ 35 summilux
Whilst the shorebirds in my previous post were interesting, the terrestrial species were arguably more interesting and none more so than the hummingbirds, a species we do not see in Asia…over the two day period, one evening and one early morning outing, these were the birds I saw…
A little hillock with a view over the marshes where some useful info on the local birds was found…the Pacific Highway is seen in the background here…
A tiny Bushtit was flitting about actively…
Belted Kingfisher
and again
A Western Kingbird
the endangered Belding’s Savannah Sparrow
Was busily gathering grass for his nest…
rabbits were everywhere…
and you can see why they are called cottontail rabbits…
I thought this little fellow had three ears!
But a close up showed that his right ear had been split down the middle..? by barbed wire or coyote?
white crowned sparrow
the red colours of the vegetation were fascinating
Anna’s Hummingbird was easily seen perched on a bare branch…
And as in the Tijuana Estuary, when the sun caught his throat, there was an explosion of colour
And then this fellow appeared…and was busy flitting from bush to bush, and hovering just long enough for me to shoot his picture…
with the light on his back, he was just magnificent!
The typical iridescent green back of the Anna’s Hummingbird
Light on his front…
Posture change…
Unidentified blackbird to end with
The undoubted highlight of the land birds was the hummingbird…such amazing coloration, such iridescence and such a challenge to shoot!
The Natural Traveller 