Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Another two new lifers for me

Lake Georgetown is about ten feet above full. It is on the north fork of the San Gabriel River. I went yesterday after checking out the flow of the south fork but my camera battery died so I went back today. I finally got a picture of the Red-eyed Verio. It pops up frequently on the "Merlin ID" app -- which I've come to not like in a lot of ways but that's another story. There is a few acre size open area just below the dam and there were "barn swallows" catching bugs. Or so I thought. I just lazily took a few snap shots of them sitting on a wire. Turns out, one was a Northern Rough-winged Swallow -- which I've never seen before. And the other was a Cave Swallow. And, there is always a Western Kingbird around it seems. I didn't spend time trying to capture them in flight. I might go back and see what I can capture.

Oh... I also got a cute Canyon Wren singing its heart out. The video is really jittery but you get the idea.