Rainy Day @ San Onofre (Part 2)

Second/final part of birds, etc. at San Onofre State Beach bluffs/campground, just south of San Clemente, California (not too far south of famous “return of the swallows” location San Juan Capistrano).

Yellow-rumped Warbler in rain
California Thrasher
White-crowned Sparrow (m)
Yellow-rumped Warbler II
White-crowned Sparrow (f)
Song Sparrow
Bluff view
Warbler III
Song Sparrow II
Lemonade Berry (Rhus integrifolia)

On the blufftop and especially in more protected areas (e.g., where the bluff has collapsed from erosion), the birds were enjoying large thickets of native Lemonade Berry (see above and below) & native Laurel Sumac (Malosma laurina), shown in this shot (and many others above/below):

Warbler on Laurel Sumac
Lemonade Berry (detail)
California Thrasher II
White-crowned Sparrow (f) III
California Towhee
White-crowned Sparrow (m) IV
Beach view, generally south
Western Gulls
One Western Gull
Warbler V
Song Sparrow III
White-crowned Sparrow (m) V
California Thrasher III
White-crowned Sparrow (m) VI
Beach view, generally north
Western Gull on beach
White-crowned Sparrow (m) VII
California Thrasher IV
Warbler VI
White-crowned Sparrow (m) VIII
Final Yellow-rumped Warbler

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