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joey
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documenting for my life list!
birding, fishing, hiking
MI 🧤 -> SoCal ⛰️
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• Black-crowned Night Heron •
• Nycticorax nycticorax •
• Lake Balboa •

An unexpected sight: two Black-Crowned Night Herons out skulking for minnows this evening at Lake Balboa.

#birds #birding #birdwatching #birdlovers #birdscrolling #birdphotography #naturephotography #nature #wildlife #SFV
• Swamp Sparrow •
• Melospiza georgiana •
• Seven Ponds Nature Center •

Another sparrow from earlier in the year! Obsessed with the rusty wash on the wings, it makes for good camouflage.

#birds #birding #birdwatching #nature #wildlife #MI
November 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
• Black Phoebe •
• Sayornis nigricans •
• Sepulveda Basin •

Flycatchers look like they’re having so much fun all the time - doing flips, catching bugs, skimming the surface of the water.

#birds #birding #birdwatching #nature #wildlife #SFV
November 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
• White-crowned Sparrow •
• Zonotrichia leucophrys •
• Sepulveda Basin •

Happy to see these little ones around with regularity again!

#birds #birding #birdwatching #nature #wildlife #SFV
November 19, 2025 at 2:05 AM
• Townsend’s Warbler •
• Setophaga townsendi •
• Glendale Narrows •

Some new lifers along the very full LA river today! This Townsend’s warbler was gleaning for insects, and I was excited to spot 2-3 Bonaparte’s Gull (juvenile/nonbreeding) in the river.

#birds #birding #birdwatching
November 17, 2025 at 12:43 AM
• Red-tailed Hawk •
• Buteo jamaicensis •
• Sepulveda Basin •

This Red-tailed hawk was looking at me with such disdain! What an intense glare.

#birds #birding #birdwatching #nature #wildlife #SFV
November 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
• American Kestrel •
• Falco sparverius •
• Sepulveda Basin •

A soggy male kestrel at the basin today.
I’m thrilled about the return of the kestrels, meadowlarks, kingfishers, pelicans, and white-crowned sparrows!
Songbirds were very active and vocal in the rain.

#birds #birding #birdwatching #SFV
November 15, 2025 at 1:09 AM
• Northern Mockingbird •
• Mimus polyglottos •
• Sepulveda Basin •

A lovely Northern Mockingbird from a few days ago, nestled in some palm fronds.

#birds #birding #birdwatching #nature #wildlife #SFV
November 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
• Belted Kingfisher •
• Megaceryle alcyon •
• Sepulveda Basin •

I worked as a docent at our Museum of Nat History when I was in college and got to run a few animal ID workshops with K-5 students. Teaching them about kingfishers was so much fun - love this bird!

#birds #birding #birdwatching #SFV
November 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
• Vermilion Flycatcher •
• Pyrocephalus obscurus •
• Sepulveda Basin •

Nice to get a prolonged look at a female VEFL! I’ve seen juvie and adult males around infrequently. That peachy wash on the rump is really distinctive in person.

#birds #birding #birdwatching #nature #wildlife #SFV
November 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
• Black-crowned Night Heron •
• Nycticorax nycticorax •
• Lake Balboa •

Cute juvenile night heron along the water from the other day.

#birds #birding #birdwatching #nature #wildlife #SFV
November 10, 2025 at 5:37 AM
• Snowy Egret •
• Egretta thula •
• Lake Balboa •

This egret was one of a handful of species patrolling the shoreline the other evening.

#birds #birding #birdwatching #nature #wildlife #SFV
November 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
• American Coot •
• Fulica americana •
• Lake Balboa •

Mudhens have really cool feet, similar to those of gallinules and moorhens (relatives in the rail family). You can see how they would thrive in marshes and swamps!

#birds #birding #birdwatching #nature #wildlife #SFV
November 8, 2025 at 3:10 AM
• American White Pelican •
• Pelecanus erythrorhynchos •
• Lake Balboa •

A cluster of beautiful pelicans by the water today, it’s nice to see them back in the valley 😌

#birds #birding #birdwatching #nature #wildlife #SFV
November 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
• Glendale Narrows •

Beautiful fog yesterday morning meant lots of birds in the river! The songbirds were down a bit, but the yellow-rumped warblers have returned in force. Lots of kingfishers!

#birds #birding #birdwatching #nature #wildlife #SFV
November 3, 2025 at 3:45 AM
• Greater Yellowlegs •
• Tringa melanoleuca •
• LA River •

Greater Yellowlegs spotted down on the LA River, near the Haskell Creek footbridge. Their size was really impressive - comparatively they towered over the nearby killdeer and sandpipers.

#birds #birding #birdwatching #nature #wildlife #SFV
October 29, 2025 at 4:23 AM
• Vermilion Flycatcher •
• Pyrocephalus obscurus •
• Bette Davis/LA River •

I think flycatchers have to be near the top of my list for favorite birds to sit and observe. This vermilion flycatcher was nicely colored up and loving the morning sun.

#birds #birding #birdwatching #nature #wildlife #SFV
October 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
• White Egret •
• Ardea alba •
• Bette Davis/LA River •

A bird of many names! This beautiful egret was by itself, silently stalking for some breakfast - sadly, I didn’t see it come up with anything.

#birds #birding #birdwatching #nature #wildlife #SFV
October 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
• Black-necked Stilt •
• Himantopus mexicanus •
• Bette Davis Picnic Area & LA River •

First time getting down to the river proper at this location, there were a handful of shorebird species all over this stretch of the narrows!

#birds #birding #birdwatching #SFV
October 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
• Belted Kingfisher •
• Megaceryle alcyon •
• Sepulveda Basin •

Being sick for a month takes its toll, happy to be healthy again! Here’s a beautiful female Belted Kingfisher that I saw this weekend at Sepulveda. Loving this fall weather!

#birds #birding #birdwatching #nature #wildlife #SFVAudubon
October 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
• Bewick’s Wren •
• Thryomanes bewickii •
• Griffith Park, Old Zoo Loop •

Clouds kept the temps down this morning and brought out some friendly critters along the trail. Added the Orange-crowned warbler as bird lifer #218, #337 overall!

#birds #birding #birdwatching #hiking #nature #wildlife #SFV
September 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
• Cooper’s Hawk •
• Accipiter cooperii •
• Oakland Co., MI •

A juvenile Cooper’s hawk was camped out on the front lawn with a fresh kill and a parent watching, before bringing the meal to a telephone pole to clean + eat. Gnarly!

#birds #birding #birdwatching #nature #wildlife #GreatLakes #lifelist
September 3, 2025 at 3:27 AM
• Pileated Woodpecker •
• Dryocopus pileatus •
• 7 Ponds Nature Center •

Saw a few Sandhills and a Green Heron on my drive out, and I added a new lifer, the Pileated Woodpecker! Stabilized the video for (I hope) a better look!

#birds #birding #birdwatching #nature #wildlife #GreatLakes #lifelist
August 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
• Red-eyed vireo •
• Vireo olivaceus •
• Mullett Lake •

It was a treat seeing red-eyed vireos noisily feeding in the lower cedar branches in the evenings - they can be so hard to spot in the forest during the day!

#birds #birding #birdwatching #nature #wildlife #GreatLakes #UpNorth #lifelist
August 26, 2025 at 1:08 AM
• Cape May Warbler •
• Setophaga tigrina •
• Mullett Lake •

Of the species that I saw regularly on the point, I was amazed by the brilliant coloring on the Cape May Warbler. ‘Tigrina’, indeed!

#birds #birding #birdwatching #nature #wildlife #GreatLakes #UpNorth #lifelist
August 25, 2025 at 3:56 AM
• Bald Eagle •
• Haliaeetus leucocephalus •
• Mullett Lake •

So lucky to see bald eagles day in, day out here. As soon as I hear their chatters through the kitchen windows each morning I run out to say hello 🦅

#birds #birding #birdwatching #backyardbirds #nature #wildlife #GreatLakes #UpNorth
August 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM