[SBB] out of area: birding behind the orange curtain...

["Chuq Von Rospach" <[[email protected]]>]

out of area, but maybe of interest to those of you forced to head south for some reason -- I spent the week down in Orange County visiting family, and birded a new area, the San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary in Irvine. it's a converted settling basin area with about 10 miles of trails, very close to John Wayne Airport. Beyond the simple fact that there's a place in Orange County with water, greenery and only a faded hint of traffic noise, it's not a bad birding area. 

More details here:

http://chuqui.typepad.com/chuqui_30/2007/07/birding-behind-.html

and photos here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chuqui/sets/72157601100987264/

highlight included american bittern, some Wilson's Snipe and Wilson's Phalarope, a really nice view of a fishing Osprey, and baby Forster's terns...

(for what it's worth, all of my photos get encoded with Google Map coordinates, so if you're every curious about finding a place I've taken pictures at, you can check out a photo and create a map that'll get you there. 

Also, for what it's worth after last week's discussion about maps, I've been working (slowly, since I got involved in some other stuff  as well after I left StrongMail to launch my new web site) on updating all of the Birding at the Bottom of the Bay and Salt Pond maps into encodings for Google Maps, which I think will make for a very useful resource once it's done. When it's ready for viewing and comment, I'll pass along a pointer. Hopefully next couple of weeks)



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Chuq Von Rospach
([[email protected]]; http://chuqui.typepad.com)
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