Stephen Ingraham (who?)
the unofficial site for birders and digiscopers using Zeiss equipment.
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San Diego Birding Festival
Not that it couldn't or shouldn't. San Diego in February offers some of the best birding you will find in the US, generally lovely weather, flowers in bloom (especially Bird of Paradise) and a definite Metaterian flavor. There are worse places to be in mid-winter. There are few better places to bird. Though I didn't get to go this year, the famous San Diego pelagic out to the Coronodo Islands (just into Mexico). had both Brown Boobie (fairly likely) and Blue-footed Boobie (a first!). Because I was on a tight schedule this year, and had the ZEISS talbe to man, I didn't get out on any of the excellent field trips. My favorite from past years (in addition to the pelagic) is the walk along the shoreline in La Joya. The breeding-plumage pelicans at the Cave Shop are worth the trip alone. Images with larger versions available have a
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This is the second year San Diego Audubon has put on the San Diego Birding Festival, but they are building on 8 years of the efforts of the previous organizers. This is a mature festival, though, at this point, a local one. A brief survey of the parking lot at the Mission Bay Marina Conference Center where the festival is held shows very few out of state cars, and a similar survey of name tags around participant's necks yields the same conclusion. This is a festival that hasn't gone national. 
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