This year, I have only seen one baby pea-chick…The jacaranda trees were also underwhelming. Maybe it was all the rain. It was a different year–with junco nests being replaced with countless oak titmouses, Bewick's wrens, American goldfinch, and huge crows and band-tailed pigeons!

Another great day birding with a Pasadena Audubon Society. This was such a unique field trip out to Costa Mesa to a unique grassland environment known for vernal ponds. It was very Birdy!! We saw red shoulder and Cooper’s hawks, uncountable number of common yellowthroat’s, I got a great glimpse of the California gnatcatcher as…

One of the highlights of the day was seeing this precious garden snail slowly making her way across the sidewalk. When I was a little girl, I remember having to avoid all of the snails on the sidewalk in the morning on my way to school— there were so many of them and I remember…

This year, June Gloom started a bit early. In years past mid-to late-May has been a time to see the tail end of the birding busy before they migrate north… Usually, by late May, we spend a lot of time looking for shore birds at Bolsa Chica, Malibu Lagoon, and the Ventura Settling Ponds. We…