A good day birding.
We’re done with everything else, so we went birding. We drove through the L.A. Basin and out the top, up the Angeles Crest Highway. Way up above 5,000 feet, we got Anna’s Hummingbird, Acorn Woodpecker, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Black Phoebe, Say’s Phoebe, Steller’s Jay, Western Scrub-jay, Common Raven, Mountain Chickadee, White-breasted Nuthatch, Wrentit, Western Bluebird, Spotted Towhee, Dark-eyed Junco, and a lifer, one of our two target birds, the White-headed Woodpecker! That was so cool. Got good looks at it.
A little later we stumbled onto a flock of Lawrence’s Goldfinches, a lifer we hadn’t even started looking for yet! That’s a great thing about looking for a specific bird. Whether you get the target bird or not, you’ll probably get something else really good anyway. To get a new bird, that means you’re going to be looking in new places.
We stopped for the night at the Holiday Inn in Palmdale. We’re out of the cruddy air in the L. A. Basin, but we can still reach the San Gabriel Mountains from the backside.
One more target bird to go, the Mountain Quail. We’ll try again tomorrow.
Here is our updated map.
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