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Honestly, How Much Could It Rain?

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San Francisco averages two-tenths of an inch for the month, while San Jose only averages half that much. I had set aside the morning of Sunday, June 10th to cross the San Francisco Peninsula to the Pacific Ocean town of Half Moon Bay, a mere 25 minute drive away, for a few hours of birding.

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Belding’s Yellowthroat, Endemic and Endangered!

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A couple of years ago, I was invited to participate in a community hummingbird Festival, in Todos Santos, BCS, Mexico. The bulk of these areas also happen to be adjacent to some of the most beautiful white sand beaches in Mexico. Especially in some of the most poverty stricken areas of Mexico.

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La Paloma, The Doves of the Baja

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The country of Mexico as a whole, is host to 27 different species of doves, with the California Baja Sure home to six. With a large number of sub-species in many of these doves, I have listed the actual sub-species for this area. A common migratory species, is the Mourning Dove , Zenaida macroura marginella.

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Birding Southern Baja: Todos Santos

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Hecho en Mexico. What better way to start the year than with a visit to Mexico? Many gringos make their way to Baja California Sur every year, although the majority are probably heading to Cabo San Lucas to party and test the human limit of tequila endurance. Destinations Baja California Sur I Am Birder Mexico'

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Birding Morelia

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One of the advantages of Morelia as a birding/tourist destination is that we receive direct flights from Houston on United, Dallas/Fort Worth on American, and Los Angeles, Oakland, San Jose (California), and Chicago/Midway on the Mexican carrier Volaris. Although a friend recently saw a pair of Aztec Thrushes here. Take that, Filtros!)

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And it’s a wrap….

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I must have keep 400 images in the file of just this one species. I caught this Lark Sparrow at San Blas, near Magdalena Bay , just as the sun was setting. There is a small Federal Reserve, set aside on the white sandy beach near San Jose Del Cabo, in order to protect the nesting Least Terns.