Breeding California Species Whales 
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
For whatever reason, however, yesterday on my way to work my mind wasn’t with our upcoming spring, but with September’s in California. The almost overpowering intensity of the summer breeding season was over, the island feels completely different, more relaxing and much less dangerous. A Humpback Whale.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 24, 2013
The one thing I really wanted to do on this most recent trip to southern California was visit Santa Cruz Island again. The ride from Prisoner’s Harbor, where we had spent our day, to Scorpion Anchorage, was uneventful, though Desi did fall asleep and I did enjoy pretty good views of breeding-plumaged Pigeon Guillemots.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 7, 2015
Sullivan, in collaboration with Todd McGrath and Tom Johnson, arrived at my door the day before I was leaving for southern California. Birds of California , the new volume in the ABA series, arrived the day I returned. It does not include near-shore, coastal species, like Brown Pelican, Elegant Tern, and Harbor Seal.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2013
A large number of people I talk to believe the island to be next to the city of Santa Cruz, California. 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. In summer and fall, the waters around the Channel Islands can teem with Blue Whales.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 13, 2013
And the endemic Hutton’s Shearwater, which only breeds in Kaikoura, will keep you entertained for those few minutes till the albatrosses hit. One is the sea canyon that comes close to shore, ensuring plenty of pelagic species can be found close to shore. Even in summer the Kaikoura Ranges are snowcapped. Another Albatross!
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
Then a little later there was a spot of bother with DDT, but we pulled out of that one ok, with a toolbox that would surely stand us in good stead if we only had the will to use it – legislation and literature, captive breeding programs, nest platforms. A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again. We could do it!
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2017
I started the year in Florida, traveled to India with the ABA in February, combined family and birding in an August trip to California, and in-between saw very good birds in New York and New Jersey. Finally, deciding that a duck that required 250 acres of land to breed probably did not welcome intruders, we tiptoed out of the swamp.
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