Big Sur Condors
Jez, Sally and I ventured down to the Big Sur coast on Tuesday as the weather was really clear (ie, not fog!)
We did the usual Big Sur type things, stopped at the Bixby Bridge etc., and we got some sandwiches from a deli in Big Sur itself, with the plan to go down to one of the turnouts where you might see Condors and have our lunch there, so that there was plenty of time to maybe get lucky and see one.
Well, we did get lucky, noticing two or three within a couple of minutes of starting lunch. They were near the house that's being worked on where I normally stop to see if I can see Condors, so after we finished our sandwiches, we moved around to that turnout.
There was a biologist already there checking to see which Condors were around the house - she gave us a good lesson on what we were seeing and I've never seen so many Condors so close - we counted at least nine that we could see (there are only around 40 in the whole of California) and they were apparently waiting around hoping a dead sea lion or two got washed up onto shore about 600 feet below us.
I neglected to bring the big camera with me (typical!), but even the Jez's point and shoot was good enough to get some good shots as the birds were so close. There are four of them in the trees and on the rocks in the photo below.
After spending a while watching the Condors, we ventured further down the coast to where the waterfall is hitting the beach (if you're a regular reader of this blog, you'll be very familiar with that sight!) - that's where the picture of Jez and Sally was taken (looking in the opposite direction away from the waterfall).
While we were there, we also spotted whales out in the ocean, so another amazing day of wildlife spotting.
We did the usual Big Sur type things, stopped at the Bixby Bridge etc., and we got some sandwiches from a deli in Big Sur itself, with the plan to go down to one of the turnouts where you might see Condors and have our lunch there, so that there was plenty of time to maybe get lucky and see one.
Well, we did get lucky, noticing two or three within a couple of minutes of starting lunch. They were near the house that's being worked on where I normally stop to see if I can see Condors, so after we finished our sandwiches, we moved around to that turnout.
There was a biologist already there checking to see which Condors were around the house - she gave us a good lesson on what we were seeing and I've never seen so many Condors so close - we counted at least nine that we could see (there are only around 40 in the whole of California) and they were apparently waiting around hoping a dead sea lion or two got washed up onto shore about 600 feet below us.
I neglected to bring the big camera with me (typical!), but even the Jez's point and shoot was good enough to get some good shots as the birds were so close. There are four of them in the trees and on the rocks in the photo below.
After spending a while watching the Condors, we ventured further down the coast to where the waterfall is hitting the beach (if you're a regular reader of this blog, you'll be very familiar with that sight!) - that's where the picture of Jez and Sally was taken (looking in the opposite direction away from the waterfall).
While we were there, we also spotted whales out in the ocean, so another amazing day of wildlife spotting.
posted by Tim H at 10:42 AM
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