• IMG_9707 - 2008-08-06 at 07-41-24
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  • Low water in the slough brings many species together
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  • Black-necked Stilt, Devereux Slough, Double-crested Cormorant, Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, Yellowlegs
  • IMG_9709 - 2008-08-06 at 07-41-48
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  • Low water in the slough brings many species together, yellow flags from a restoration project in the background
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  • Black-necked Stilt, Devereux Slough, Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, Restoration, Yellowlegs
  • IMG_9716 - 2008-08-06 at 07-42-48
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  • Devereux Slough
  • IMG_9719 - 2008-08-06 at 07-44-26
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  • Low water in the slough brings many species together
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  • Black-necked Stilt, Devereux Slough, Double-crested Cormorant, Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, Reddish egret, Yellowlegs
  • IMG_9741 - 2008-08-07 at 07-39-41
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  • Devereux Slough
  • IMG_9748 - 2008-08-07 at 07-42-15
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  • Devereux Slough
  • IMG_9425 - 2008-08-07 at 08-08-04
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  • Devereux Slough
  • IMG_9426 - 2008-08-07 at 08-08-23
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  • Devereux Slough
  • IMG_9757 - 2008-08-07 at 08-12-59
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  • Pond at COPR, Sands Beach - COPR
  • IMG_9764 - 2008-08-07 at 08-21-49
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  • Post - Sands Beach, Sands Beach - COPR, Snowy Plovers
  • IMG_9770 - 2008-08-07 at 08-22-33
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  • Sand height on the beach is about at it's peak as the wintering plovers start to add to the breeding snowy plover population.
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  • Post - Sands Beach, Sands Beach - COPR, Snowy Plovers
  • IMG_9775 - 2008-08-07 at 08-23-39
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  • Jennifer Storh, the Snowy Plover program director, counting chicks
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  • Jennifer Stroh, Sands Beach - COPR, Snowy Plovers
  • IMG_9427 - 2008-08-07 at 08-27-24
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  • Bush Lupine, Evening Primrose, Sands Beach - COPR
  • IMG_9776 - 2008-08-07 at 08-36-22
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  • Young Least Tern
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  • Least Tern, Sands Beach - COPR
  • IMG_9779 - 2008-08-07 at 08-42-42
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  • Sands Beach - COPR
  • IMG_9913 - 2008-08-08 at 07-37-44
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  • Wilson's Phalaropes pictured here. The Red-necked Phalrope haven't come in the large numbers that they did last year. The biggest count I've heard from Mark Holmgrem for Devereux was 30. It was approximated that 3,000 were at the Slough at one time last year.
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  • Phalarope, Sands Beach - COPR, Wilson's Phalarope
  • IMG_9917 - 2008-08-08 at 07-38-02
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  • Phalarope, Sands Beach - COPR, Wilson's Phalarope
  • IMG_9621 - 2008-08-17 at 17-23-34
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  • Elegant Tern, Sands Beach - COPR
  • IMG_9622 - 2008-08-17 at 17-23-35
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  • Elegant Tern, Sands Beach - COPR
  • IMG_9623 - 2008-08-17 at 17-23-36
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  • Elegant Tern, Sands Beach - COPR
  • IMG_9627 - 2008-08-17 at 17-23-50
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  • Elegant Tern, Sands Beach - COPR
  • IMG_0202 - 2008-08-17 at 17-29-46
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  • Elegant Tern, Sands Beach - COPR
  • IMG_0207 - 2008-08-17 at 17-29-48
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  • Elegant Tern, Sands Beach - COPR
  • IMG_0208 - 2008-08-17 at 17-29-48
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  • Elegant Tern, Sands Beach - COPR
  • IMG_0210 - 2008-08-17 at 17-29-49
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  • Elegant Tern, Sands Beach - COPR
  • IMG_0238 - 2008-08-17 at 17-36-14
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  • Post - Sands Beach, Sands Beach - COPR
  • IMG_0260 - 2008-08-17 at 17-49-04
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  • Brown pelican, Sands Beach - COPR
  • IMG_9630 - 2008-08-21 at 18-19-44
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  • Project Budburst, Sands Beach - COPR
  • IMG_9637 - 2008-08-21 at 18-37-39
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  • Brian Haggerty, Project Budburst, Sands Beach - COPR
  • IMG_9638 - 2008-08-21 at 18-39-32
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  • Brian Haggerty, Project Budburst, Sands Beach - COPR
  • IMG_0273 - 2008-08-21 at 19-24-59
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  • Devereux Slough
  • IMG_0274 - 2008-08-21 at 19-25-16
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  • Devereux Slough
  • IMG_0277 - 2008-08-21 at 19-25-41
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  • Devereux Slough
  • IMG_0278 - 2008-08-21 at 19-26-33
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  • Devereux Slough
  • IMG_0295 - 2008-08-24 at 08-09-59
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  • Devereux Slough
  • IMG_0349 - 2008-08-24 at 08-28-28
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  • Elegant Tern, Sands Beach - COPR
  • IMG_0372 - 2008-08-24 at 08-39-30
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  • Ruddy Turnstone, Sands Beach - COPR
  • IMG_0379 - 2008-08-24 at 08-40-21
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  • Black-bellied Plover, Sands Beach - COPR
  • IMG_0380 - 2008-08-24 at 08-40-28
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  • Black-bellied Plover, Sands Beach - COPR
  • IMG_0386 - 2008-08-24 at 08-45-47
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  • Sands Beach - COPR, Signs
  • IMG_0387 - 2008-08-24 at 08-46-38
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  • Boats, Sands Beach - COPR, Venoco
  • IMG_0401 - 2008-08-24 at 08-54-36
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  • Chicks, Sands Beach - COPR, Snowy Plovers
  • IMG_0402 - 2008-08-24 at 08-54-36
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  • Chicks, Sands Beach - COPR, Snowy Plovers
  • IMG_0417 - 2008-08-26 at 07-19-23
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  • Devereux Slough
  • IMG_0464 - 2008-08-30 at 09-45-08
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  • Devereux Slough, Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, Reddish egret
  • IMG_0465 - 2008-08-30 at 09-45-12
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  • Devereux Slough
  • IMG_9652 - 2008-08-30 at 09-58-37
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  • Sands Beach - COPR
  • IMG_9654 - 2008-08-30 at 10-00-01
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  • Sands Beach - COPR
  • IMG_0530 - 2008-08-30 at 10-36-42
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  • Goldenbush is just starting to bloom while the buckwheat flowers are turnning a rusty brown
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  • Sands Beach - COPR
  • IMG_0534 - 2008-08-30 at 11-48-36
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  • long distance shot of a Golden plover among the Black-bellied Plovers (foreground)
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  • Devereux Slough
  • IMG_0536 - 2008-08-30 at 11-48-54
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  • Devereux Slough, Semi-palmated Plover

Interests of Callie | Birds | Surfing | Santa Barbara Farmers' Market, Gardening and Farming | Snowy Plovers | Trips and Places

Callie's e-mail: cjbowdish@hotmail.com

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