Today is a Wednesday. Wednesday is not a running day. I had no site visits or surveys scheduled. That means I go birding. This morning it meant that I would go birding along the LA River at Atwater Village, covering the section from Los Feliz Boulevard to Colorado Street, a stretch of river measuring a little over one mile. It was a productive outing with 41 bird species, including some things not recorded on a typical outing such as Cinnamon Teal and the introduced species Egyptian Goose and Pin-tailed Whydah.
The full eBird list is available here. Selected photos from this morning are in the slideshow widget below.
This Red-shouldered Hawk was among the first birds observed. It looks horned, which is not how they typically look. 
A Great Egret roosting in a tree. 
A juvenile Great Blue Heron. 
Black-crowned Night-Heron. 
Female Belted Kingfisher. 
Three recently-fledged Green Herons. 
A Great Blue Heron suns itself. 
A Cinnamon Teal (taking off here) was a bit of surprise. It was feeding with Mallards. 
A pair of Egyptian Geese excitedly greeting each other. 
A male Pin-tailed Whydah. The bird’s length is actually centered in this image. If you look closely you can see the long tail drooping below it.
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