Birding with Jessie

Jessie's my old fishing buddy. He came over to go crabbing on the pier at night but it rained so we hung out inside and looked at bird books while discussing life's events.

The next morning he mentioned that he wanted a new hobby and asked if I had any suggestions. So the obvious was suggested and we took the dog on his first long walk since his surgery down to the lagoon for the year's first birding walk, mine and Jessie's and Pirate's.

We saw:
At the beach:
Willet
Surf Scoter
Raven
Brandt's Cormorant
Rock Dove
Brewer's Blackbird
Sanderling
Western Grebe
various gulls

At the lagoon:
Marsh Wren
Pied-bill Grebe
American Coot
Ruddy Duck
California Towhee (we think)
Red-shouldered Hawk (2)
Turkey Vulture
Red-tailed Hawk
Mallard
Mourning Dove
Northern Harrier
Says Phoebe

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