The Prairie Falcon flying off a power poll. A Belted Kingfisher making my record shot of the Bolsa Chica Reddish Egret much more interesting.  A Surf Scoter. And, of course, the Rock Pigeon, Common Pigeon, Feral Pigeon, whatever the heck you want to call it. How about Pigeon? Anyway, these are, as my sadly unclever title implies, my favorite unused pics from my trip to California back in January. Simply put, I birded too much there and this is the result: a bunch of pictures without a blog post to call home until now. Poor me.  And even more poor me that Charlie went and got better pictures of some of these birds and got them posted before I did.  Now that’s just not fair…

Prairie Falcon

Reddish Egret, Belted Kingfisher, and a whole bunch o’ shorebirds

Surf Scoter

Double-crested Cormorant

hybrid wigeon

Ring-billed Gull

Black-crowned Night-Heron