Nature/travel journal pages of an observation of a female varied thrush flushed off the nest with one chick and two eggs.
Global GeoART Blitz on iNat
North Sonoma Mountain Regional Park & Open Space Preserve, Santa Rosa California, USA
38.21'50"N, 122.36'3"W
1120 feet elevation
Global GeoART Blitz on iNat
North Sonoma Mountain Regional Park & Open Space Preserve, Santa Rosa California, USA
38.21'50"N, 122.35'54"W, 1200 feet elevation
Global GeoART Blitz on iNat
North Sonoma Mountain Regional Park & Open Space Preserve, Santa Rosa California, USA
38.21'48"N, 122.36'9"W, 1040 feet elevation
Global GeoART Blitz on iNat
North Sonoma Mountain Regional Park & Open Space Preserve, Santa Rosa California, USA
38.21'42"N, 122.35'58"W, 1290 feet elevation
Colored with Prismacolor colored pencils (that's what PC stands for)
Nesting, breezy about 30 degrees Celcius.
Saw many very common yellow-vented bulbuls in the park. However, it was my first time seeing a nesting one, and a bulbul's nest in the bush! Well hidden (but not from me) and didn't expect it to be so low from the ground!