Birds of the Ojai Valley (photographs by Jon Dieges, copyright 2012):
 Returning Common Yellowthroat arrived this evening November 3, 2012, at about 6:45 p.m. in Ojai |
 A flock of Pine Siskins has come down from the mountains for the winter of 2012-2013, arriving in October. |
 Another friend from last year, the Yellow-rumped Warbler remembered I put out worms and began coming a week ago 2012. |
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Birds and Other Wildlife of the Ojai Valley (Photographs by Ms. Billie Berri, 1921-1997, copyright 1998 by Jon Dieges):
 An Adult Male Rose-breasted Grosbeak completely out of place on the West Coast of North America, part of a small colony that zigged when they were supposed to zag and survived north of San Francisco and Mount Tamalpais. |
 A Rufous Hummingbird stopping by on its migration to Alaska or Canada from its winter home in Southern Mexico. |
 A Mature Adult Male Hooded Oriole raising its family in the Ojai Valley after a more than thousand mile migration from its Winter home in Western Mexico in Sinaloa State. |
 An adult female American Robin with a beakfull of earthworms to feed its fledgling at right. |
 A Fledgling American Robin waiting to be fed by its mother to the left. |
 An adult male Bullock's Oriole--they have just one nest a year, whereas the Hooded Orioles have two (although a first year pair may only have one if they got started late). |
 An adult male Western Tanager stopping by for some mealworms on its Spring Migration in 1986. |
 A Green Jay normally found in Mexico and no further north than the southernmost tip of Texas--our best theory was that someone brought it in a cage from Mexico and then released it in Ojai when they realized it was illegal to keep a wild migratory bird in a cage. |
 An adult male Phainopepla, or "Silky Black Flycatcher," a graceful bird that seemingly floats in the air as it picks off insects (note the red eyes). |
 An American Robin Fledgling--the runt of the litter, not quite able to elevate and fly yet. |
 The champion weavers of the songbird world--the female Hooded Oriole--breaking off filaments of the California Fan Palm called "Washingtonia Filafera" as a result. |
 A Fledgling Hooded Oriole waiting to be fed some mealorms by its parents. |
 The first of the White-crowned Sparrows arrived as usual from the North about the Fall Equinox September 21, although most of them here now showed up a few weeks later in mid-October 2012. |