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California’s Autumn Seas

10,000 Birds

Come September most of the summer seabird people had left, but there were a small number of seabirds still breeding and so I stayed behind for three years to continue their monitoring and do the migrant landbird surveys, as well as the Great White Shark surveys. The seas were glass still, and far out we could see whales, dozens of the things.

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Birding Santa Cruz Island

10,000 Birds

At the very northern end of their breeding range in the Channel Islands, they are strictly a Californian bird as far as the U.S. The scenery is stunning…expansive, rolling grasslands, towering vertical cliffs, cozy canyons filled with oaks, quiet coves where sea lions and cormorants mingle over the kelp forests.