I visited four places in the Tijuana River Valley on a Thursday mid-June morning. I started at the Bird and Butterfly Garden to be teased by Black-Throated Magpie-Jays. I followed with a bike ride to the Tijuana River Mouth where terns (Least & Forster’s) and plovers (Snowy) played in the sand and surf for me. Then I drove to the main Dairy Mart Pond where a Mallard family and Pied-Billed Grebes gained my attention. My last stop was at the nearby “Stick Pond” along Dairy Mart Road where I was entertained by a juvenile Green Heron.
Birds I met on this expedition were Black-Throated Magpie-Jay, Forster’s Tern, Least Tern, Snowy Plover, Pied-Billed Grebe, Mallard, Green Heron.
Mallard(Anas platyrhynchos) |
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Description: Juvenile at the Dairymart Ponds, in the Tijuana River Valley Regional Park, San Diego County, California. |
Date Taken: 2013:06:13 9:37 |
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Location:
Tijuana River Regional Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/5.6, 1/800 |
File Name: D3X9451-Mallard-Juvenile |
| © 2013 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
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Date Taken: 2013:06:13 14:25 |
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Camera Information: |
File Name: 20130613-TijuanaRiverValley |
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Green Heron(Butorides virescens) |
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Description: Juvenile at the Dairymart Ponds, in the Tijuana River Valley Regional Park, San Diego County, California. |
Date Taken: 2013:06:13 11:17 |
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Location:
Tijuana River Regional Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: D3X9541-GreenHeron-Juvenile |
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Green Heron(Butorides virescens) |
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Description: Juvenile at the Dairymart Ponds, in the Tijuana River Valley Regional Park, San Diego County, California. |
Date Taken: 2013:06:13 11:17 |
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Location:
Tijuana River Regional Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/800 |
File Name: D3X9537-GreenHeron-Juvenile |
| © 2013 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Green Heron(Butorides virescens) |
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Description: Juvenile at the Dairymart Ponds, in the Tijuana River Valley Regional Park, San Diego County, California. |
Date Taken: 2013:06:13 11:17 |
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Location:
Tijuana River Regional Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1000 |
File Name: D3X9535-GreenHeron-Juvenile |
| © 2013 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Green Heron(Butorides virescens) |
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Description: Juvenile at the Dairymart Ponds, in the Tijuana River Valley Regional Park, San Diego County, California. |
Date Taken: 2013:06:13 11:08 |
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Location:
Tijuana River Regional Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/400 |
File Name: D3X9508-GreenHeron-Juvenile |
| © 2013 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Mallard(Anas platyrhynchos) |
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Description: Female at the Dairymart Ponds, in the Tijuana River Valley Regional Park, San Diego County, California. |
Date Taken: 2013:06:13 9:37 |
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Location:
Tijuana River Regional Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/5.6, 1/1000 |
File Name: D3X9454-Mallard-Female |
| © 2013 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Mallard(Anas platyrhynchos) |
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Description: Juvenile at the Dairymart Ponds, in the Tijuana River Valley Regional Park, San Diego County, California. |
Date Taken: 2013:06:13 9:30 |
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Location:
Tijuana River Regional Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/5.6, 1/1250 |
File Name: D3X9438-Mallard-Juvenile |
| © 2013 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Mallard(Anas platyrhynchos) |
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Description: Family at the Dairymart Ponds, in the Tijuana River Valley Regional Park, San Diego County, California. |
Date Taken: 2013:06:13 9:28 |
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Location:
Tijuana River Regional Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/5.6, 1/4000 |
File Name: D3X9427-Mallard-Family |
| © 2013 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Pied-Billed Grebe(Podilymbus podiceps) |
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Description: Juvenile at the Dairymart Ponds, in the Tijuana River Valley Regional Park, San Diego County, California. |
Date Taken: 2013:06:13 9:19 |
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Location:
Tijuana River Regional Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/5.6, 1/400 |
File Name: D3X9401-PiedBilledGrebe-Juvenile |
| © 2013 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Snowy Plover(Charadrius alexandrinus) |
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Description: The Tijuana River Mouth, Imperial Beach, San Diego County, California. |
Date Taken: 2013:06:13 8:15 |
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Location:
Tijuana River Mouth |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/5.6, 1/2500 |
File Name: D3X9368-SnowyPlover |
| © 2013 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Least Tern(Sternula antillarum) |
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Description: The Tijuana River Mouth, Imperial Beach, San Diego County, California. |
Date Taken: 2013:06:13 7:59 |
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Location:
Tijuana River Mouth |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/5.6, 1/2500 |
File Name: D3X9351-LeastTern |
| © 2013 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Forster's Tern(Sterna forsteri) |
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Description: The Tijuana River Mouth, Imperial Beach, San Diego County, California. |
Date Taken: 2013:06:13 7:37 |
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Location:
Tijuana River Mouth |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/5.6, 1/2000 |
File Name: D3X9344-ForstersTern |
| © 2013 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Black-Throated Magpie-Jay(Calocitta colliei) |
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Description: At the Bird & Butterfly Garden in the Tijuana River Valley Regional Park, near Imperial Beach, San Diego County, California. |
Date Taken: 2013:06:13 6:42 |
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Location:
Bird & Butterfly Garden |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/5.6, 1/320 |
File Name: D3X9297-BlackThroatedMagpieJay |
| © 2013 Jack Daynes, shadeTree-Imaging |
Green Heron(Butorides virescens) |
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Description: Juvenile at the Dairymart Ponds, in the Tijuana River Valley Regional Park, San Diego County, California. |
Date Taken: 2013:06:13 11:06 |
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Location:
Tijuana River Regional Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/5.6, 1/800 |
File Name: D3X9487-GreenHeron-Juvenile |
| © 2013 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
Green Heron(Butorides virescens) |
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Description: Juvenile at the Dairymart Ponds, in the Tijuana River Valley Regional Park, San Diego County, California. |
Date Taken: 2013:06:13 11:11 |
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Location:
Tijuana River Regional Park |
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Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/500 |
File Name: D3X9520-GreenHeron-Juvenile |
| © 2013 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |
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