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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Nov 7, 2025 at 15:39:40, Ann Kramer <<a href="mailto:lens4birds@gmail.com">lens4birds@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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<div>You may be thinking of the San Juaquin Marsh and Wildlife area in Orange County,which has great birding although it doesn't even compare to Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, which is a Mecca for several types of Terns Egrets, Pelicans and a variety of raptors. I saw my firstWhite-Tailed Kite there. There is also an active Heron rookery at Bolsa Chica. A lot of people miss Huntington Park,</div>
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You are correct, I mixed those two places up. San Juaquin Marsh in Irvine is where Orange County Audubon has its HQ. Very much agree with you on Bolsa Chica, one of the relatively few places to get good looks at Least Terns, and Huntington Park was where I saw my first Black Skimmers (another species that is very findable some parts of the year around San Francisco Bay)<br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(39,39,40);font-family:-apple-system,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><div><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">---------------------------------------<br><br>Chuq Von Rospach (<a href="http://www.chuq.me" target="_blank">http://www.chuq.me</a>)</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">Silverdale, Washington</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">Birder, Nature and Wildlife Photographer<br><br>Email me at: <a href="mailto:chuqvr@gmail.com" target="_blank">chuqvr@gmail.com</a><br>Mastodon: @<a href="mailto:chuqvr@fosstodon.org" target="_blank">chuqvr@fosstodon.org</a><br><br>Stay Updated with what I'm doing: <a href="https://www.chuq.me/6fps/" target="_blank">https://www.chuq.me/6fps/</a><br>My latest e-book: <a href="https://www.chuq.me/ebooks" target="_blank">https://www.chuq.me/ebooks</a><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>
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