Fish Out of Water

Musings about life & travel from an East Coast native living on the Left Coast in the CA State Capitol since 2004 and now also spending time at a home-away-from-home in Evanston, IL. This fish has lived in Madison, WI (7 years); Portland, OR (2 years); Las Vegas, NV (7 months); Middlebury, VT (3 summers); Marne-la-Vallee, a small town east of Paris, France (6 months); Middletown, CT (3 years); & Marshfield, MA, the fish's coastal hometown 40 miles south of Boston (17 years).

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Location: Sacramento, California, United States

3.02.2015

Day 338: Bird Sightings

On our trek up Diamond Head, I spotted a bird with a grey and white body and a bright red head. I'm not usually much of a bird-watcher, but this creature was just so striking with its contrasting colours. According to this web site, it's a red-crested cardinal:


Several other noticeable local birds that provided colour and sound during our visit here include the zebra dove (similar to a mourning dove), rock dove (looks like a big white pigeon), and java sparrow (with a distinctive orange beak):




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