All the pictures on these pages are of free, wild birds in Orange County, CA and all were taken by me since October of 2017. In that time I have learned a lot about birds and cameras, and possibly even a little about the art of photography. I hope you enjoy the photos. The individual species are listed below in roughly the same order as I encountered them. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please email me using the link at the bottom of my home page.

Red-shouldered Hawk	White-tailed Kite	Red-tailed Hawk	Barn Owl	Turkey Vulture
Mourning Dove	California Scrub-jay	White-crowned Sparrow	Northern Mockingbird	Spotted Towhee
Yellow-rumped Warbler	Bushtit	Common Raven	American Crow	Black Phoebe
Say's Phoebe	Scaly-breasted Munia	Snowy Egret	Blue-gray Gnatcatcher	California Towhee
House Finch	Western Kingbird	Cooper's Hawk	Lesser Goldfinch	American Coot
Greater Roadrunner	Western Grebe	Great Egret	Western Sandpiper	Great Blue Heron
Mallard	Amer. White Pelican	Brown Pelican	White-faced Ibis	Song Sparrow
Forster's Tern	Pied-billed Grebe	Canada Goose	California Quail	Acorn Woodpecker
Hermit Thrush	Fox Sparrow	Band-tailed Pigeon	Nuttall's Woodpecker	Black-crowned Night Heron
Merlin	American Kestrel	California Thrasher	European Starling	California Gnatcatcher
Allen's Hummingbird	Anna's Hummingbird	Costa's Hummingbird	Cassin's Kingbird	Belted Kingfisher
Spotted Sandpiper	Northern Flicker	Downy Woodpecker	Dark-eyed Junco	Phainopepla
Chipping Sparrow	Ruddy Duck	Hutton's Vireo	Bewick's Wren	Wrentit
Orange-crowned Warbler	Western Bluebird	Ruby-crowned Kinglet	Green Heron	Mountain Chickadee
House Wren	Ring-billed Gull	Killdeer	Lesser Scaup	American Wigeon
Gadwall	Cinnamon Teal	Sharp-shinned Hawk	Hooded Merganser	Western Gull
Double-crested Cormorant	Lincoln's Sparrow	Northern Shoveler	Rock Pigeon	Egyptian Goose
Greater Yellowlegs	Great-tailed Grackle	Least Sandpiper	Black-bellied Plover	Whimbrel
Caspian Tern	Semipalmated Plover	Willet	Sanderling	Heermann's Gull
Common Yellowthroat	Western Meadowlark	American Robin	American Pipit	Bufflehead
Brewer's Blackbird	Cedar Waxwing	Eurasian Collared Dove	Red-winged Blackbird	Green-winged Teal
Eared Grebe	Savannah Sparrow	Brant	Surf Scoter	American Avocet
Long-billed Curlew	Reddish Egret	Northern Pintail	Marbled Godwit	Redhead
Red Knot (juvenile)	Black-necked Stilt	Horned Grebe	Blue-winged Teal	Golden-crowned Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow	Oak Titmouse	White-breasted Nuthatch	Cactus Wren	Purple Finch
Vermillion Flycatcher	White-throated Swift	Northern Rough-winged Swallow	Tree Swallow	Northern Harrier
Clark's Grebe	Osprey	Black-headed Grosbeak	Common Gallinule	Sora
Yellow Warbler	Ring-necked Duck	Snow Goose	Canvasback	Peregrine Falcon
Snowy Plover	Royal Tern	House Sparrow	California Gull	Red-breasted Merganser
Ridgway's Rail	Great Horned Owl	Cliff Swallow	Barn Swallow	Violet-green Swallow
Long-billed Dowitcher	Red-breasted Sapsucker	Lilac-crowned Parrot	Palm Warbler	Black Oystercatcher
Elegant Tern	Bonaparte's Gull	Wilson's Warbler	Pin-tailed Whydah	Hooded Oriole
Wood Duck	Red-crowned Parrot	Yellow-headed Parrot	Pacific-slope Flycatcher	Rufous Hummingbird
Tropical Kingbird	Bullock's Oriole	Lewis's Woodpecker	Nashville Warbler	Western Tanager
Black-throated Gray Warbler	Baltimore Oriole	Ash-throated Flycatcher	Black Skimmer	Brown-headed Cowbird
Bell's Vireo	Lazuli Bunting	Warbling Vireo	Townsend's Warbler	Western Wood-pewee
Hermit Warbler	Black-chinned Hummingbird	Lesser Nighthawk	Swainson's Thrush	Hairy Woodpecker
Blue Grosbeak	Yellow-breasted Chat	Least Tern	Swinhoe's White-eye	Olive-sided Flycatcher
Orange-cheeked Waxbill	Rock Wren	Black-chinned Sparrow	Rufous-crowned Sparrow	American Goldfinch
Bell's Sparrow	Lark Sparrow	Horned Lark	Brandt's Cormorant	Yellow-throated Vireo
Swainson's Hawk	Wilson's Phalarope	Solitary Sandpiper	Lesser Yellowlegs	Northern Red Bishop
Bald Eagle	Indigo Bunting	Least Bittern	Red-necked Phalarope	Yellow-crowned Night Heron
Semipalmated Sandpiper	Ruff	Loggerhead Shrike	Bronze Mannikin	Baird's Sandpiper
Cackling Goose	Willow Flycatcher	Greater White-fronted Goose	Buff-breasted Sandpiper	Pectoral Sandpiper
Wilson's Snipe	Mandarin Duck	Bank Swallow	Stilt Sandpiper	Dunlin
Vaux's Swift	Surfbird	Black Turnstone	Ruddy Turnstone	Black-vented Shearwater
Pink-footed Shearwater	Common Tern	Parasitic Jaeger	Buller's Shearwater	Arctic Tern
Pomarine Jaeger	Red-footed Booby	Pelagic Cormorant	Masked Booby	Little Blue Heron (juvenile)
Common Loon	Marsh Wren	Varied Thrush	Hammond's Flycatcher	Common Nighthawk
Red-naped Sapsucker	Cattle Egret	Lucy's Warbler	Black-and-white Warbler	Green-tailed Towhee
Mountain Bluebird	Mountain Quail	Long-tailed Duck (female)	Mew Gull	Herring Gull
Zone-tailed Hawk	Hepatic Tanager	Burrowing Owl	Ovenbird	Western Screech-Owl
Gray Flycatcher	American Redstart	Eurasian Wigeon	Common Merganser	Clay-colored Sparrow
Summer Tanager	Red-throated Loon	Laughing Gull	Glaucous-winged Gull	Long-eared Owl
Lawrence's Goldfinch	Common Goldeneye	Grasshopper Sparrow	Yellow-chevroned Parakeet	Short-billed Dowitcher
Nazca Booby	Common Ringed Plover	Wandering Tattler	Magnolia Warbler	Chestnut-collared Longspur
Northern Waterthrush	Black Tern	Chestnut-sided Warbler	MacGillivray's Warbler	Neotropic Cormorant
Sage Thrasher	Canyon Wren	Townsend's Solitaire	Brown Creeper	Pine Siskin
Painted Redsart	Northern Parula	Franklin's Gull	Greater Pewee	Brown Thrasher
Swamp Sparrow	Tricolored Heron	Mountain Plover	Red-breasted Nuthatch	Ross's Goose
Brown-crested Flycatcher	Eastern Phoebe	Pine Warbler	Vesper Sparrow	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Cassin's Vireo	Calliope Hummingbird	Orchard Oriole	Yellow-headed Blackbird	Black Swan
Red Phalarope	Black-throated Sparrow	Purple Martin	Brewer's Sparrow	Blackburnian Warbler
Gray Catbird	White-winged Dove	Rose-breasted Grosbeak	Harlequin Duck	Thick-billed Kingbird
Mexican Duck	Broad-winged Hawk	Black Swift	Mitred Parakeet	Pigeon Guillemot
Pacific Golden Plover	Least Flycatcher	Black-throated Blue Warbler	Plumbeous Vireo	Canada Warbler
Tennessee Warbler	Golden-crowned Kinglet	Golden Eagle	Bay-breasted Warbler	Ferruginous Hawk
Tri-colored Blackbird	European Goldfinch	Great-crested Flycatcher	Red-eyed Vireo	Harris's Sparrow
Zebra Finch	Dickcissel	Virginia's Warbler	Red-lored Parrot	Common Ground Dove
Northern Fulmar	Lapland Longspur	Pacific Loon	Williamson's Sapsucker	Red Crossbill
Verdin	Black Scoter	Greater Scaup	Black-throated Green Warbler	Snowy Owl
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher	Virginia Rail	Cape May Warbler	Brown Booby	American Bittern
Red-whiskered Bulbul	Painted Bunting (female)	Lark Bunting	Prothonotary Warbler	Wood Thrush
American Oystercatcher	Iceland Gull	LeConte's Sparrow	Prairie Falcon	Ancient Murrelet
White Wagtail	Hooded Warbler	Philadelphia Vireo	Eastern Wood-Pewee	Black Storm-Petrel
Rhinoceros Auklet	Common Murre	Cassin's Auklet	Scripp's Murrelet	Sooty Shearwater
Tufted Puffin	Blackpoll Warbler	Sabine's Gull