Nils Warnock
@dunlin
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.
Juvenile Least Sandpiper taking a bath. Little Compton, RI. #birds #shorebirds
Summer Azure (I think). Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge, RI. #butterflies
Adult (L) and juvenile (R) Wilson's Phalarope. An Osprey was flying by. Mono Lake, CA #birds #shorebirds
Always a treat when you get to see as well as hear the beautiful Yellow-breasted Chat. Only the second one I have seen here at Cypress Grove, Marshall, CA. #birds
Warning – a disturbing picture. Take care of your fishing gear! It can kill wildlife. A Double-crested Cormorant that got its head stuck in a crab trap and then got tangled in a tree with deadly results. Marshall, Tomales Bay, CA.
Roosting Great Horned Owl, Drake's Beach, Point Reyes National Seashore, CA #birds
A flock of migrating Bonaparte's Gulls that came in for a rest and drink at Point Reyes National Seashore today. #bird
A beautiful Gray Fox sitting in our driveway. Cypress Grove, Marshall, CA #wildlife
The no-spots, Spotted Sandpiper hunting invertebrates. Should be molting into breeding plumage (=spots) soon. Marshall, CA #shorebirds #birds
I have been looking for this Anna's Hummingbird nest for the past week. I finally found it less than a meter off of the path I walk almost every day. Marshall, CA #birds
Shorebird migration is on here along the central California coast. A flock of Hudsonian Whimbrel making the move. #birds #shorebirds
The strike - Great Egret in the process of catching a stickleback. Point Reyes National Seashore, CA #birds
She just froze and stared at me. A female Anna's Hummingbird that I suspect has a nearby nest. Marshall, CA #birds
Snowy Plover trying to look like a Wrybill. Point Reyes National Seashore, CA #birds #shorebirds
A floofed out White-crowned Sparrow in Point Reyes National Seashore, CA. #birds
Western Sandpiper that is just beginning to molt into its breeding plumage. The count down begins. Abbotts Lagoon, Point Reyes National Seashore, CA. #shorebirds #birds
Half a smelt is better than no smelt. Our local Osprey brought his/her half eaten fish to the nest tree. Cypress Grove, Marshall, CA #birds
Strutting toms and unimpressed females. Wild turkeys at Cypress Grove, Marshall, CA. #birds
The Spotted Towhees are singing away at the Point Reyes National Seashore, CA #birds