Nils Warnock

@dunlin.bsky.social

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Ornithologist. Especially interested in shorebirds and migration. Based in California with affinity for Alaska and Rhode Island. Unless noted, photos are my own. All photos taken with Sony RX10 IV or iphone.

Dragonfly perched on a sage leaf
baby wild turkey in the dandilions
butterfly on a blade of grass
Yellow-breasted Chat in a twinberry bush
Wrentit on a branch
Orange-crowned Warbler perched on a branch
Sleeping Great Horned Owl sitting on a dead branch
Bonaparte's Gulls in the water
Gray Fox sitting in the road
Spotted Sandpiper hunting invertebrates along the shoreline of Tomales Bay
Female Anna's Hummingbird sitting on a nest made of lichen and spider webs
flying flock of Hudsonian Whimbrel over the surfline.
Great Egret in the process of catching a stickleback while plunging its head in the water..
female Anna's Hummngbird perched on a stick
Male Snowy Plover roosting in the sand
Horned Lark in the setting sun
white-crowned sparrow with feathers blown out by wind
Roosting Western Sandpiper
Osprey with a fish
Displaying wild turkeys
Spotted Towhee sitting on a bush
Male Anna's Hummingbird
Western sandpiper on beach
Townsend's Warbler in the willows
Common Mergansers flushing up from the water
Male Western Bluebird
Sunset picture
Black-necked Stilt and its shadow
Tundra Swans in the evening light
Snow geese in flight
Great Blue Heron in flight
snowy egret
Long-billed Dowitcher feeding in the water
Anna's Hummingbird in flight
Downy Woodpecker
Snowy Egret landing in the water
Marbled Godwit in the salt grass
Marbled godwit in the waves
Brush rabbit standing with pink ears backlit
Great blue heron in the air
Marbled Godwit in flight
a glowing Anna's Hummingbird
Oak Titmouse
Black Oystercatcher stretching its wings
First year Dunlin roosting in a sea of Western Sandpipers (Long-billed Dowitchers in the background).