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ZEISS DTI thermal imaging cameras. For more discoveries at night, and during the day.

sialia currucoides

  1. Mountain Bluebird

    Mountain Bluebird

    A scarce migrant and winter visitor to the California coast. This one was found yesterday (17 March) by Carlos Salgado.
  2. Mountain Bluebird

    Mountain Bluebird

    Originally found by Kevin Liberg, I believe this is an immature (formative plumage) male. Note the grayish greater coverts and alula which are retained from juvenile plumage. These feathers are blue in adults. Breeding in the interior Mountain West, they are scarce winter visitors to the coast...
  3. Mountain Bluebird

    Mountain Bluebird

    This is a male. Breeding in the interior Mountain West, they are scarce winter visitors to our area but regular in small numbers in the foothills around the Central Valley. This one was part of a small flock. The male's sky-blue color is variable. It is not a pigment but a structural color...
  4. Winter Blues

    Winter Blues

    With the onset of winter in Southern California, Mountain Bluebirds migrate down to the High Desert to forage on treats like grasshoppers not found in their homes during the cold. This guy was literally out in the middle of nowhere during a 4x4 trip the other day....captured from the truck about...
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    Mountain Bluebird
  6. Chewy!

    Chewy!

    A Female Mountain Bluebird enjoying a soft hors d'oeuvre! :)
  7. Mountain Bluebird

    Mountain Bluebird

    Very rare along the coast, this female has been in the area since at least 2 December 2020. Females are variable with a grayish or pale rusty wash on the chest and may be confused with female Western Bluebirds. However Mountain Bluebirds have a longer, thinner bill, longer wings and tail and...
  8. Mountain Bluebird

    Mountain Bluebird

    Very rare along the coast, this dazzling adult male delighted local birders yesterday after being found the day before. It seems to be part of a pattern with a female photographed recently at Point Reyes to the north and another fly-by seen in coastal San Francisco suspected of being this species.
  9. Mountain Bluebird

    Mountain Bluebird

  10. Mountain Bluebird

    Mountain Bluebird

  11. Mountain Bluebird (f)

    Mountain Bluebird (f)

  12. Mountain Bluebird (m)

    Mountain Bluebird (m)

    One of the commoner birds of the trip.
  13. Mountain Bluebird

    Mountain Bluebird

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