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Cool! I just saw a downy woodpecker (according to Val's bird book - I'd taken mine home) outside my office window; probably a female as it lacked a red head patch, but did have the black and white stripy wings and white eye-stripe. I grabbed my camera since she was on the branch closest to my window, but alas, I forgot my battery died when Angus ( Read more... )

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Interesting...I posted a while ago about a pelican on the sidewalk in my neighborhood, and only now stumbled across a February posting from the International Bird Rescue Research Center - they have a center in San Pedro, up the hill from the docks - that might explain some of the weird things pelicans were doing last winter.

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I saw a very sweet thing driving to work this morning. I made a right turn from Seal Beach Blvd. onto Lampson to head to my office, and ahead of me, saw a police car stopped in the right lane with its lights flashing. At first I thought someone was being pulled over, but then I noticed the cop walking around his car to the lawn. I was kind of ( Read more... )