West Coast Birds of North America

There were so many amazing birds on our trip to California. And so very different! I had to look them all up in the Field Guides we borrowed from the library.

Black skimmer

Black skimmers in action. Cool!

Common Tern

Elegant Tern

Foster's Tern

Heerman gull

Killdeers (so cute! They are getting endangered in the East)

Least Sandpipers

Long-billed Curlew

Marbled Godwit

Willet

Sanderlings

Double-crested Cormorants

Pelagic Cormorant

Clark's grebes

Pied-billed Grebe (so teeny!)

Snowy Egret

Surf Scoter

 If I've named them wrongly, please let me know!

Ducks! Ducks! Ducks!

Ducks are a beginning birder's best friends. They are colourful and pretty. You can learn binoculars skills and how to photograph them because they won't fly away. After all, they are sitting ducks!

Ringed Neck Ducks (Duxbury, MA)

Male Northern Shoveller (Central Park, NYC) 

His wife, female Northern Shoveller

Female ruddy duck (Fresh Pond, Cambridge)

Her husband, male ruddy duck (Central Park, NYC)

 

Bufflehead husband and wife (Central Park, NYC)



American Coot (Duxbury, MA)

American wigeon (Plum Island, MA)



Green winged Teal (Plum island, MA)



Male wood duck (Muddy River, Brookline, MA)

His wife, female wood duck (Muddy Pond, MA)

 And my all-time fav........ (*drum roll*)

Female Hooded Mergenser

Her husband Hooded Merganser (Fresh Pond, Cambridge)

Husband & wife team having a great time!