Birds of Fall 2013 and Winter 2014
Welcome to my visual diary of the beautiful, and rare, birds I photographed during the fall and winter months. I was so blessed to photograph many rare bird for the Los Angeles area, such as a Orchard Oriole, Scott's Oriole, Tropical Kingbird, Red-throated Loon, White-throated Sparrow, Williamson's Sapsucker, Ross's Goose, Cackling Goose, Blue-footed Booby, Summer Tanager and a Eurasian Wigeon. It was an exciting time!
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This image, of a male Red-breasted Sapsucker, was featured in the summer 2017 issue of American Forests magazine. This beautiful bird was photographed in Valyermo, CA. Red-breasted Sapsuckers are winter visitors to Southern California and like other sapsuckers, these birds drill holes in trees and eat the sap as well as insects attracted to it. Red-breasted Sapsuckers visit the same tree multiple times, drilling holes in neat horizontal rows (as shown in the photograph). A bird will leave and come back later, when the sap has started flowing from the holes. Sapsuckers also eat seeds and berries.
