Bushtits....

Another day much like yesterday....when we set off, despite the fact there had been a lot of duck hunting and therefore gunshots out there for most of the morning...

there were quite a few Bald Eagles along the shoreline, a Great Blue Heron on the piling and I could hear Killdeer....

a number of them, like this young one were perched in the 'eagle' trees.  Walked over to the log bay where more eagles were perched in the trees and out along the shore line...

these two out on the flats were having a very vocal discussion about something!

this Spotted Towhee was sunning in the bushes.  And speaking of bushes, as we headed back we ran into....

the first Bush-tit flock of the season.  Unfortunately I didn't really have the right camera with me for capturing these active little birds.  

And speaking of 'camera' on my way over to the log bay I had passed a photographer carrying a very expensive camera set up.  I knew when the area where the eagles  were had been accessed as I heard the heron that had been on the piling take off, giving an alarm call as it flew....sure enough the photographer was settled in at the end of the point where the birds had been.  At least this person, and the one yesterday, were going about it the right way by settling in as unobtrusively as possible and letting the birds come back, rather than marching along the foreshore chasing after them.

the heron hadn't gone far and was busily fishing.