an intoxicated nightingale amongst the owls

October 5, 2013 I got to Oceano early and was lucky to be shown by a bunch of birders the Yellow-green Vireo.  I trudged around Oceano and m...

Santa Maria Sewage plant September 18, 2013.  In field bird looked very rufous and made me think Sharp-tailed.  Picture is ambiguous , Pe...

This is I believe an adult Ruff possibly a female?  It was at Santa Maria Sewage on September 10, 2013.  Wes Fritz showed me a juvenil...

I just want to dump a bunch of photos of birds I think are Thayer's Gulls or could be confused with Thayer's Gulls. This gull. I g...

March 29, 2011 I saw a Lesser Nighthawk at the pond near my home. On March 30 I took a few bad photos. The early date from Birds of Santa B...

I was a busy person October and I did not get to bird at Guadalupe and Oceano like I usually do every October. I had a Western Kingbird/Tro...

Like many California birders I went to Pismo Beach not for the clams, man, but to see an Ivory Gull who knew he should have made a left turn...