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#WaterWednesday photo from last weekend at #BolsaChicaEcologicalReserve #iPhonePhotography #Nature
Partly cloudy morning skies over patchwork water and marshy greens.
January 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Snowy Egret. Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve. California. #photography #art #color #bird #seabird #egret #snowyegret #BolsaChicaEcologicalReserve
May 6, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Willets, 7/13/24. #BolsaChicaEcologicalReserve #nature #photography #naturephotography #birds
July 14, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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California Least Tern. Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve #photography #art #color #bird #tern #BolsaChicaEcologicalReserve
May 9, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Reddish Egret. Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve. California. #photography #art #color #bird #ReddishEgret #Egret #BolsaChicaEcologicalReserve
May 15, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Happy #FeatheredFriday Blueskiers!! #Birds #Photography #Nature #BolsaChicaEcologicalReserve
American white pelican flies over the wetlands from left to right in the frame. Black-tipped, white wings outstretched and a long yellow bill points the way as this large but graceful looking bird passes by.
January 31, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Double-crested cormorants. Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve. Orange County, California.

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#Animals #Wildlife #Birds #WildlifePhotography #Cormorant #Double-crestedCormorant #BolsaChicaEcologicalReserve #OrangeCounty #California
September 21, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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This absolutely beautiful girl lives at Bolsa Chica. 1/4/25 #Coyote #BolsaChica #bolsachicawetlands #bolsachicaecologicalreserve
February 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Another view of the tricolored heron from last weekend. Have a good day! #Birds #Photography #Nature #BolsaChicaEcologicalReserve
A large gray and rust colored heron stands on a wooden handrail looking to the right. The morning sun casts a shadow of his/her long beak onto its own body. Long yellow/green legs grasp the handrail below. The beak is dark gray above and orange below.
October 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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#birdoftheday #multicolour #birds #Nature #Photography
A Caspian tern from this morning. #BolsaChicaEcologicalReserve
Against a pale blue sky, a mostly white tern flies overhead. We see the bird with wings outstretched and the eyes are scanning the waters below. The tern has black feet neatly tucked, a black cap and an orange beak.
July 29, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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Have a good #WaterWednesday. This is a photo of a black- necked stilt taken 2 weeks ago at #BolsaChicaEcologicalReserve. #Birds #Nature
Watery wetlands fill the frame with a solitary black and white bird with long pink legs walking through the near side of the picture. You can see the birds reflection in the still, morning water.
May 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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damn Sleep, come hither,
futures told in three days time,
Joy, not Fear, pray thee
#HaikuSaturday #Birds #BolsaChicaEcologicalReserve
Close crop of a large osprey perched on a light post looking back over his right shoulder (nearest the viewer). Backdrop is a clear, light blue sky.
November 2, 2024 at 3:18 PM
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A black-necked grebe, in breeding plumage, catches a fish for breakfast yesterday. #Birds #Nature #Photography #BolsaChicaEcologicalReserve
A water bird that is mostly black, but with dark brown flanks and golden “whiskers” behind a red eye, sits in the greenish-white waters of the wetlands. A small green fish is gripped in its thin, black bill.
April 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Great Blue Heron is standing in the shallows heroning! 😆. #WaterWednesday #Birds #Nature #BolsaChicaEcologicalReserve
A heron stands knee deep in the water. S/he appears a little lighter in color and is reflected on the waters below. S/he looks left and her neck has the slightest S-curve (reversed). Small patches of sea grasses breach the surface as we are at low tide.
June 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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I was lucky enough to encounter this Little Blue Heron preening on a fence. September 3, 2025 #BolsaChicaEcologicalReserve #Birds #FeatheredFriday #Photography #Nature
Send from behind with wings outstretched, this mostly dark gray heron has a purplish blue neck and head and a bicolored beak. Background is sand and shrub. Same heron in profile looking right with a blurred out yellows and greens of shrubs.
September 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Juvenile black-crowned night heron at #BolsaChicaEcologicalReserve on 8/8/24. #BIrds #Photography #Nature
Mostly gray heron standing in the reeds along the water’s edge. While s/he is trying to blend in, the orangish-red eye is making that harder to do.
August 24, 2024 at 9:58 PM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #outstretched. A few American white pelicans fly by on Christmas morning. #BolsaChicaEcologicalReserve #Birds #Photography #Nature
3 white pelicans fly by from right to left. Black-tipped wings outstretched in mid-flight. The first bird has wings overhead, the second at the side, and the third down below their bodies. Blue skies with wispy white clouds are in the background.
December 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Long-billed curlew scanning edge of the water for lunch. Bolsa-Chica Ecological Reserve, Huntington Beach, California, USA. February, 2026. #bolsachicaecologicalreserve #bird #birds #longbilledcurlew #birdphotography #nature #naturephotography #amateurphotography #photography
Long billed curlew standing on mossy rocks next to the still water of the estuary.
February 18, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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Happy #FeatheredFriday friends!! This snowy egret is planted among the plants at #BolsaChicaEcologicalReserve #Birds #Photography #Nature
A white medium-sized egret is standing amongst the yellow, red and browns in a field of pickleweed in the fall. S/he is in profile looking right and the yellow eye and lore is visible behind a black bill.
December 20, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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First time that I have seen a red-necked phalarope somewhat close to me was this past week. Here is a #SittingOnWater photo for #BirdoftheDay. Happy Sunday. #Birds #Nature #Photography #BolsaChicaEcologicalReserve
A white-bodied bird with brownish black wing feathers edged in white swims around in gray waters. S/he has a needle thin black beak and a black stripe down the crown and behind the right eye.
September 6, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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Keeping it unreal. A common loon from back in November. #Birds #PhotographyArt #Nature #BolsaChicaEcologicalReserve
A large gray and white loon swims away from the viewer but looks back over his/her right shoulder. We can see the red eye and the thick, silver bill. Underwater you can see feet paddling away. I knew the colors of the water could be amped up in post processing to make something colorful. 😃
March 7, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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“My nose itches”. Western sandpiper at #BolsaChicaEcologicalReserve #WaterWednesday 🦉📷
Small shorebird on the edge of the water stands in profile cleaning his bill with his foot. Brown back and head, bright white chest contrasting with black legs and bill.
September 11, 2024 at 12:52 PM
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#WaterWednesday #Birds This brown pelican had a photo session 1/1/2024 at #BolsaChicaEcologicalReserve. All were invited. Have a good day!
Brown pelican seen from behind standing on the hand rail of a wooden walking bridge. The frame is close cropped to just show upper half of body and head turned to side exposing one eye keeping tabs on the viewer. Water wetlands and brown shorelines blurred in the background.
August 6, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Happy #featheredFriday! This black-crowned night heron did a fly-by on Sept. 5, 2025 at #BolsaChicaEcologicalReserve.
Against a blurry backdrop of yellow, green and red wetlands vegetation, a heron flies from right to left across the photo. The bird has a navy/black cap and whitish/gray wings extended downward. A red eye is visible above a yellow beak with a dark tip.
September 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM