Yellow warbler. We also saw common yellow-throat warblers, even brighter yellow, in mating behaviors, and Wilson's warbler. A flock of barn swallows darted everywhere, no photos. Higher up, white-throated swifts.
Wasp eggs laid in the arroyo willow leaves. They are toxic so the leaves curl up and protect the eggs until they hatch, then the wasps eat their way out.
Black-necked stilts, a pair foraging near their nest. Also cinnamon teals, grebes, mallards.
Mom and baby killdeer.
Grackles everywhere, noisy, imitating other birds. Gorgeous long tails. Also song sparrows, warbling vireo,
Over a dozen Canada geese, mom and dad walked these 3 chicks onto Jefferson Blvd. All the cars stopped until they came back to the marsh.
Ruddy ducks, several, the males with their blue beaks, females are more plain. Also great blue heron overhead, red tail hawks, Cassin's kingbirds, mourning doves, Allen's hummingbird.
Millions of redwing blackbirds, this is the female.
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