Some of the birds I saw were incidental (example Band Tailed Pigeon at Disney) and others I found when I specifically went out birding. I was surprised to see how common some species were in California compared to Long Island such as Marbled Godwits and Whimbrels seemingly "all over" the beach at Santa Barbara. I was lucky to see a California Condor fly by at Nepenthe restaurant in Big Sur. My main target bird was a Heerman's Gull and by the end of the trip I saw hundreds. I thought I saw a lot of Western Kingbirds in Santa Barbara but I had some doubt that they could have been Cassin's Kingbirds.
A few of my favorite birds was an Anna's Hummingbird that lived ouside our room in Santa Barbara (photo below) and 3 Red Necked Phalaropes that my daughter found, also in Santa Barbara. Pelicans were plentiful.
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| Annas Hummingbird |
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| Allen's Hummingbird |
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| Acorn Woodpecker |
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| Band Tailed Pigeon |
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| Bewicks Wren |
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| "Bicolored Blackbird" |
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| Black Oystercatcher |
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| Black Phoebe |
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| Black Turnstone |
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| Brandt's Comorant |
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| Brewer's Blackbird |
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| California Towhee |
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| California Condor |
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| California Gull |
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| Heerman's Gull |
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| Western Gull |
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| California Scrub Jay |
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| Black Eyed Junco |
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| Elegant Tern |
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| Hooded Oriole |
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| Lesser Goldfinch |
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| Long Billed Curlew |
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| Olympic Gull (Western x Glaucous Winged) |
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| Pigeon Guillemot |
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| Red Necked Phalarope |
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| Scaly Breasted Munia |
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| Spotted Towhee |
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| Stellers Jay |
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| White Collared Swift |
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| Wrentit |
