Had a recent trip to California, observing interesting backyards and lagoons. A daily sighting was a black phoebe and immature phoebe feeding on insects, including a large walking stick. Also, hummingbirds - Anna's - and a brown towhee, also called California towhee. Once in the past, we viewed an oriole here. There is a grapefruit and an orange tree in the yard, makes for great feeding and habitat.
In a side trip to a lagoon area, we viewed dozens of brown pelicans, ruddy ducks, avocets, phalaropes, cormorants, some least terns (whose protected nesting area was near our hiking route), and - a somewhat challenging ID problem which turned out to be a horned lark and family. The lark was acting somewhat sparrow-ish, and the beak fooled us, but we finally figured it out.
As we drove back home from the airport in Kenai, we saw a Northern harrier in the KR flats. Many backyard pine siskins, chickadees, and nuthatches. Our yard is still full of birds this late in August.
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