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2015 Wintery Times

December 2015 through March 2016
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1/25<br /> It couldn't have been any nicer along the coast today. What a beautiful day to mountain bike in Sycamore Cyn! Temps probably mid to high 60s. Saw a kestrel and a great egret along PCH near Cabrillo State Park! Also in the afternoon I saw the 'resident' bluebirds on my neighborhood walk with the boys as well as cedar waxwings, yellow-rumped warblers.
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It couldn't have been any nicer along the coast today. What a beautiful day to mountain bike in Sycamore Cyn! Temps probably mid to high 60s. Saw a kestrel and a great egret along PCH near Cabrillo State Park! Also in the afternoon I saw the 'resident' bluebirds on my neighborhood walk with the boys as well as cedar waxwings, yellow-rumped warblers.

  • 1/24 marbled godwit malibu lagoon/beach
  • 1/24 snowy plover at the beach, only 8,000 of these exist. They are very hard to see hunkered down in the sand.
  • 1/24 a very bright and rufous-y allen's hummingbird. Almost looks like a rufous. Malibu Lagoon
  • 1/24 these sweet little (about 7-8 altogether) were resting in the sand at the beach at Malibu Lagoon. There are only about 8,000 of these in existence.
  • 1/24 mature brown pelicans and gulls hanging out at the beach
  • 1/24 surfers, gulls, brown pelicans, cormorants all enjoying a beautiful Sunday morning at the beach
  • 1/24 a neighborhood bike ride included Old Agoura and this doggie was walking alongside the horse and rider.<br /> On a short afternoon walk with the boys to the little green slope by the bridge I saw bluebirds, yellow-rumped warblers and a very excited sighting of about 30 cedar waxwings, many of whom were eating the orange berried off the pyracantha. They are such beautiful birds! I saw a cooper's hawk also, the 'resident' cooper's hawk that often hangs out there.
  • 1/24 one of the majestic oaks in Cheseboro
  • 1/24 Malibu Lagoon on a clear Sunday morning, a SM Audubon walk. A notable sighting was a merlin, pintail ducks, green tealed ducks, snowy plovers, brown pelicans
  • 1/24 a very rufous-y allen's in Malibu Lagoon
  • 1/24 Allen's in Malibu Lagoon
  • 1/25 And it's always fun to hear and see ravens in Sycamore Cyn. One of these ravens was making a melodic knocking sound and I looked up to see these two. I saw a flicker, an acorn woodpecker, heard a nuttall's and saw several small birds, juncos and white crowned sparrows. I didn't have my binos with me. We flushed a RT hawk from off the ground off the trail.
  • 1/25 a beautiful day to ride
  • 1/25 favorite loop in Sycamore Cyn, parking at Sycamore Cove and biking in from the beach
  • 1/25<br /> It couldn't have been any nicer along the coast today. What a beautiful day to mountain bike in Sycamore Cyn! Temps probably mid to high 60s. Saw a kestrel and a great egret along PCH near Cabrillo State Park! Also in the afternoon I saw the 'resident' bluebirds on my neighborhood walk with the boys as well as cedar waxwings, yellow-rumped warblers.
  • 1/26 parked down at Cabrillo State Beach today and climbed Mulholland in the morning (starting out at 10:15am) Very little traffic and it was a beautiful day, slightly santa ana winds, but in the upper 60s, maybe 70 degrees today. This is the view from the top of Mulholland. I saw a Monarch butterfly in the parking lot!<br /> On the afternoon walk with the boys in the neighborhood I saw cedar waxwings eating the orange berries of the pyrocantha, as well as the resident bluebirds, yellow-rumped warblers, a cooper's hawk.
  • 1/29 a field trip to Mugu Naval Base in Oxnard with the CVAudubon Society, met at 7:45, ended at 12:25pm. A gorgeous non-windy, sunny, day with temps reaching mid to high 60s. Since no photos were allowed on base this is a picture of the santa monicas from the oxnard plains on Potrero just before the climb back up to T.O. <br /> Birds seen:<br /> Black Skimmers<br /> terns (Fosters)<br /> GBH (several)<br /> at least 30 Yellow capped with a few black capped night herons (the yellow capped nest there)<br /> a Vermillion Flycatcher (they had a nesting pair there last year)<br /> hermit thrush<br /> 2 belted kingfishers<br /> several Northern Harriers<br /> several RTs<br /> a Great Horned Owl!!! <br /> Ferruginous Hawk<br /> Peregrine Falcon<br /> Prairie Falcon<br /> Kestrel<br /> a lot of brown pelicans in breeding plumage<br /> northern shovelers<br /> Black Scoter<br /> Surf Scoters<br /> Western Grebes<br /> Horned Grebe<br /> Common Merganser<br /> 3 Osprey<br /> Reddish Egrets (3)<br /> Western Meadowlarks<br /> American Pippets<br /> White Crowned Sparrows<br /> Sora<br /> Killdeers (several)<br /> coots (of course)<br /> lots of godwits, long-billed curlews, 2 yellow legs<br /> Brants (lots)<br /> Northern Pintails! <br /> short and long-billed dowitcher<br /> sandpipers<br /> I don't know shore birds as well but there were so many long billed and short billed shore birds it was hard to count and hard for me to tell them apart, except for the curlews, Ibis, marbled godwits, avocets. I saw all of these today.<br /> of course gulls and cormorants.<br /> Many sea lions sunning themselves on the sand. Several in the water coming in from the ocean. <br /> Loons on the ocean side. David said there were shearwaters out there but I didn't see them.
  • 1/28 we rode up rock store Mulholland in the late morning. A beautiful day, and it warmed up as we climbed. Our first rock store climb of the year.
  • 1/31 finally rain! Probably over an inch. A female nuttall's ventures out after the rains let up in early afternoon.
  • 1/30 Cheseboro from the Ridge trail loop on our mountain bikes. At least there's a hint of green here this season and rain in the forecast for tomorrow.
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