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Blatant Blog Pimp. Slideshow-Birds, Bolsa Chica Wetlands Preserve, Huntington Beach, CA (with music)
Birds ^ | 4-9-10 | Jesse Ellis

Posted on 04/09/2010 8:43:44 AM PDT by 51773photo

If you like birds (no salt and pepper jokes) you may like this.


TOPICS: Hobbies
KEYWORDS: birding; herons; stuff

1 posted on 04/09/2010 8:43:44 AM PDT by 51773photo
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To: 51773photo
Rarely seen honest blog pimp. :)

...back later.

2 posted on 04/09/2010 8:48:23 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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Hey Jessie, give us a little background about Bolsa Chica and how you got so many great shots there.


3 posted on 04/09/2010 8:58:40 AM PDT by Califelephant
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Are these yours? Beautiful.


4 posted on 04/09/2010 9:05:37 AM PDT by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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To: Califelephant

It hasn’t been around but for 20 or 30 years now. Birds are getting more plentiful and varied. If you enjoy walking around in fresh air and sunshine, it’s a nice place to visit.
The Herons have been nesting, hence all the twig shots. You will need a long lens, and a tripod. (I prefer a mono pod because it allows me to move with the birds, and yet take out wobble) As with anything I shoot, the secret is to shoot like crazy anything that moves, and go through them later. I used a 300mm 2.8 at 16000 set at ASA 100. It is on the corner of PCH and Warner in Huntington Beach, CA. If you go, remember, they are birds so be patient.


5 posted on 04/09/2010 9:06:55 AM PDT by 51773photo
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correction 16000 should be 1600


6 posted on 04/09/2010 9:13:28 AM PDT by 51773photo
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The birds and the bees bee. ;)
Beautiful photos. Thank you for posting.
7 posted on 04/09/2010 10:32:35 AM PDT by astyanax (Liberalism: Logic's retarded cousin.)
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To: 51773photo
It hasn’t been around but for 20 or 30 years now.

I had a very small role in creating this wetland preserve. When I was a teenager, Huntington Beach was largely rural. The wetlands were a natural saltwater marsh that had always been there.

When housing construction began to encroach on the wetlands in the late '60's, our State Assemblyman, Craig Hosmer (D) co-sponsored a bi-partisan measure to make what you see today a protected refuge for migrating birds. Being enthusiastic about ecology and saving the planet, I wrote to several legislators and Governor Ronald Reagan in support of the measure. That was in about 1968. Each letter had to be written out in hand. Not even a Xerox machine was available.

The measure passed easily, and good thing that it did, as you can see when you visit that every square foot of non-protected land has been develeped up to the edge of the preserve. I think it may attract a much wider variety of birds today due to the disappearance of much of the remaining wetlands in So Cal.

Thanks for making me feel good about this wonderful preserve. And, btw, GREAT PICTURES!!!

Anyone traveling through California via Pacific Coast Hwy should make this a mandatory stop. You can just park in a lot right off the Hwy and walk the paths that have been designed for visitors. No smoking, no trash, no wandering off the paths. You know the rules. (_;o

8 posted on 04/09/2010 11:08:26 AM PDT by ARepublicanForAllReasons (President Zero, walking in the footsteps of Hugo Chavez)
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Thank you! If not for your efforts, and people like you, wandering around Bolsa Chica may have ended up a walk through housing tracks and strip malls.


9 posted on 04/09/2010 11:14:03 AM PDT by 51773photo
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You’re svw. I wus just a disenfranchised hippy out to save Mother Earth. Now I’s all growed up.


10 posted on 04/09/2010 11:38:07 AM PDT by ARepublicanForAllReasons (President Zero, walking in the footsteps of Hugo Chavez)
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