OHIO Blue Gray Gnatcher AUSTRALIA / NEW ZEALAND Laughing Kookaburra Little Penguin Agile Wallaby Lewin's Honeyeater Brown Cuckoo-Dove Australian Brush Turkey SE ARIZONA Pine Flycatcher Tufted Flycatcher Black-chinned Hummingbird VENICE, CALIFORNIA Great Horned Owl Great Horned Owl Barn Owl Nuttall's Woodpecker (chick) RECENT CALIFORNIA RARITIES Red-necked Stint Lesser Sand-Plover Arctic Loon White Wagtail Gray Hawk JUNE 2012 - ALASKA Parakeet Auklet Least Auklet Thick-billed Murre Northern Fur Seal Common Redpoll Rock Sandpiper Northern Fulmar American Golden-Plover MAY 5, 2012 - MAGEE MARSH, CRANE CREEK, OHIO Black-capped Chickadee Palm Warbler Supermoon Transit APRIL 28, 2012 - BALLONA CREEK, CALIFORNIA Tree Swallow FEBRUARY 21, 2012 - MALIBU LAGOON, CALIFORNIA Bonaparte's Gull JANUARY 19, 2012 - SAN JACINTO WILDLIFE AREA, CALIFORNIA Gyrfalcon Gyrfalcon JANUARY 14, 2012 - SAN SIMEON, CALIFORNIA Arctic Loon JANUARY 13, 2012 - BALLONA FRESHWATER MARSH, CALIFORNIA Crested Caracara DECEMBER 30, 2011 - NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SEA, UNITED KINGDOM Desert Wheatear DECEMBER 5, 2011 - ALBANY, OREGON Snowy Owl Snowy Owl NOVEMBER 9, 2011 - SAN PEDRO, CALIFORNIA Royal Tern OCTOBER 22, 2011 - BALLONA CREEK, CALIFORNIA American Golden-Plover OCTOBER 1, 2011 - LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Vaux's Swift SEPTEMBER 26, 2011 - BAHAMA ISLANDS Buffy Flower Bat Great Lizard Cuckoo Western Spindalis Common Moorhen JANUARY 27, 2011 - BALLONA CREEK, CALIFORNIA Whimbrel Least Sandpiper Least Sandpiper JANUARY 13, 2011 - PAK THALE, THAILAND Great Knot Green Bee Eater JANUARY 11, 2011 - KHAO YAI NATIONAL PARK, THAILAND Asian Elephant Asian Elephant Reticulated Python JANUARY 8, 2011 - BANG PU, THAILAND Black-tailed Godwit Black-tailed Godwit Black-tailed Godwit Red Thai Crab JANUARY 7, 2011 - PAK THALE, THAILAND Spoon-billed Sandpiper (two) Spoon-billed Sandpiper NOVEMBER 21, 2010 - BALLONA CREEK, CALIFORNIA Great Blue Heron NOVEMBER 18, 2010 - BALLONA CREEK, CALIFORNIA Pacific Golden-Plover NOVEMBER 10, 2010 - SALTON SEA, CALIFORNIA Taiga Bean-Goose - In flight Taiga Bean-Goose - Feeding Snow Goose Loggerhead Shrike NOVEMBER 9, 2010 - BALLONA CREEK, CALIFORNIA Surfbird Black Turnstone Black Oystercatcher Willet Great Egret American Pipit Heermann's Gull Western Gull Western Gull Western Gull - 1st cycle AMERICA Yosemite Valley American Bison Hermosa Beach JANUARY 2010 - FALKLAND ISLANDS, SOUTH GEORGIA AND ANTARCTICA Adelie Penguin Adelie Penguin Black-browed Albatross Gentoo Penguin Rockhopper Penguin Antarctic Fur Seal South Georgia Island Fin Whale Emperor Penguin King Penguin Gentoo Penguin Rockhopper Penguin Fin Whale Antarctic Fur Seal Black-browed Albatross Blackish Cinclodes OCTOBER 24, 2009 - BARBADOS ISLAND, CARIBBEAN SEA Loggerhead Sea Turtle JULY 31, 2009 - SYCAMORE CANYON / RUBY ROAD, AZ Black-tailedRattlesnake Western DiamondbackRattlesnake Black-throatedSparrow Nest JULY 28, 2009 - LOS ANGELES, CA Hooded Oriole APRIL 7, 2009 - GALÁPAGOS ISLANDS, ECUADOR Galápagos Tortoise Galápagos Green Turtle Blue-footed Booby Red-footed Booby Nazca Booby Marine Iguana Hood Mockingbird Sally Lightfoot Crab Lava Heron Tower Island Waved Albatross Yellow-crowned Night Heron MAY 28, 2008 - GALÁPAGOS ISLANDS, ECUADOR Galápagos Penguin Galápagos Sea Lion Galápagos Fish Whitetip Reef Shark Spotted Eagle Ray Great Frigatebird Swallow-tailed Gull