Painting Atalaya

An artist enjoying the nice weather and painting Atalaya at Huntington Beach State Park.

Egret and the Snake

I can't believe he swallowed it.

A Plover in the Pluff Mud

Concentration

Tricolored Heron

Early Bird Gets the Shrimp

Sorry Mr. Crab

Roseate Spoonbill in Flight

Huntington Beach State Park

Spiny-backed Orb Weaver

Hummingbird

The number of hummingbirds at the feeder has been decreasing as they begin to head south to more tropical quarters.

A Gulf Fritillary

visits the butterfly bush.

A Juvenile Yellow-crowned Night-heron

Special thanks to Gary Phillips who writes a weekly birding column in the Sun News for helping identify this bird which I photographed at Huntington Beach State Park.