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A pair of California brown pelicans.

A brown pelican balancing on a buoy.

Male and female mallards.

A black phoebe, perching a moment before darting off.

An Anna's hummingbird perched on a shrub branch.

A white-crowned sparrow pausing briefly on a branch before darting underbrush

A perched female house finch.

A song sparrow hides itself amid the brush.

A long-billed curlew scouting the shoreline.

A great egret in flight.

A white-crowned sparrow perched on a wire.

A mourning dove rests upon the fence.

A perched northern mockingbird between songs.

A male and female house finch.

A photogenic Cassin's kingbird.

A California scrub-jay posing for us very close by the trail

A swimming lesser scaup

A female western bluebird scans the sky.

A lesser goldfinch scavenging for berries.

A yellow-rumped warbler looking for food

A greater yellowlegs on the hunt for food along the shoreline

A Say's phoebe momentarily pausing between nabbing insects

A great blue heron stalks its prey

A motionless great egret

A pair of savannah sparrows perched near the water's edge.

A curious snowy egret

A Say's phoebe on the lookout for insects

A female Anna's hummingbird

A black phoebe hunts the sky for insects

A colorful male house finch

A wistful northern mockingbird

An inquisitive northern mockingbird

A rare painted redstart

A solitary male mallard

A skulking Light-footed Ridgway's rail

A flock of American avocets

A statuesque great egret

A pensive double-crested cormorant

A brief pause between dives for this pied-billed grebe

A perched white-crowned sparrow

A perilously perched Anna's hummingbird

A snowy egret hunts in a flooded creek

A tiny bushtit

Light reflecting off a male Anna's hummingbird

A California scrub jay on the highest tree

A female ring-necked duck

A great egret bizarrely perched in a tree

A savannah sparrow sings atop a twig.