Here is a small collection of photos taken during a business trip to Seal Beach. I was lucky to have a full day free (the same Sunday I arrived) which I spent at the Bolsa Chica nature reserve in Huntington, from about 10 am till dusk. Two further short early-morning excursions to a golf course next to the hotel helped me get a few more species. Below are the photos I took during this trip. This page has 158 photos including 45 bird species (12 of which are also found in Argentina). This trip allowed me to obtain my first photos of 4 species also present in Argentina. Many thanks to Bob Schallmann (Conservation Program Manager - Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach ) and Terry Rich (US F&W Service) for checking the photos and help me sort out some similar species. Thanks for visiting ths page - Alec Earnshaw Site gateway: www.fotosaves.com.ar

PHOTOS (Click o the photos to enlarge)

Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve
	Signpost at the Visitor's Center
	View of the Visitor's Center. Inside there are informative posters, brochures, a very interesting collection of specimens and even somre live reptiles. You can also purchase a lovely callendar and other merchandise.
	Birds have right of way here - quite rightly!
	Some areas are out of bounds, but the reserve has plenty of trails to walk along, visiting a wide diversity of habitats.
	I started my walk mid-monring and still foggy, setting off from the visitor's center at the north edge of the reserve. Mind the rattlesnakes - though I saw none!
	One of the first birds of the day was this female Northern Harrier that fortunately hovered very close to me
	Lovely habitat of brackish waters that connect to the sea, so are subjected to sides, and this determines when the shorebirds can best be seen.
	At low tide flocks of small sandpipers fly all the time, in this case Sanderlings.
	A group of American Avocet - what a beautiful bird!
	I finished at the south end of the lagoon, there were lots of gulls...
	...and Double-crested Cororants too!
	Also the 2 species of Pelicans were there. This photo, however, was taken a day or two later at a golf course in Seal Beach.

GREBES
Eared Grebe

Western Grebe

Pied-billed Grebe

PELICANIFORMES
Brown Pelican

White Pelican

Double-crested Cormorant

HERONS
Great Blue Heron

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Snowy Egret

RAPTORS
Northern Harrier (female)

Cooper's Hawk

Osprey

DUCKS
American Wigeon

Buffhead

Greater Scaup


Lesser Scaup


Greeen-winged Teal


Mallard


Northern Pintail


Northern Shoveller


Red-breasted Merganser


Ruddy Duck



COOTS
American Coot



SHOREBIRDS
American Avocet


Black-backed Stilt


Black-bellied Plover


Killdeer


Marbled Godwit


Willet




(Short-billed?) Dowitcher


Dunlin


Spotted Sandpiper


Whimbrel



GULLS & TERNS
Western Gull


Forster's Tern



DOVES
Mourning Dove



HUMMINGBIRDS
Allen's Hummingbird

Anna's Hummingbird




WOODPECKERS
Northern Flicker



PASSERINES
American Crow


Black Phoebe



Say's Phoebe


White-crowned Sparrow (2 adult and 1 immature)

OTHER CRITTERS

California Ground Squirrel - Spermophilus beecheyi


Western Fence Lizard - Sceloporus occidentalis


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