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07/06/2024
In Cambria, we visited a trail where we have been before. It is surrounded by homes yet while on the trails, you feel like you are in the forest many miles from civilization. It is quiet and surrounded by every species of tree imaginable.
The hike travels downward as it makes its way toward the ocean, where you can hear the subtle sound of breaking waves in the distance.
Here you can find birds you don’t see in coastal San Diego such as the Steller’s Jay, and Chestnut-backed Chickadee. These Two and others, I have already compiled on my list. However, I was interested in this Brown Creeper that kept coming up on the Merlin Sound App.
I heard it but didn’t see it until I was making my way back to the car. I finally got my first view of this small brown bird in the last minute of our walk.
It turns out that it camouflages very well with the tree, and you really have to be close to see it.
I saw movement on the ground and then it hopped up on the trunk of the tree, this is it! I thought, this is going to be a piece of cake!
No piece of cake! All of a sudden it took off up the tree in seconds flat! I could barely follow it with my camera. What just happened? I wasn’t prepared for that.
It was like a miniature King Kong climbing the Empire State building but with lightning speed.
JoJo laughed and said, “I told you that the description said, that it jettisons up the tree”
Well. hahaha, I didn’t hear you.
Still shell shocked, I saw it, or another, hop on a different tree. I thought, this time I will aim the camera two feet above and ahead of it as it scrambles up the tree. This way, I am not trying to keep up with it. Once it hits my viewfinder, I will snap the photo.
This didn’t work either. It was like a Tesla, doesn’t look fast, but is.
I hung out for a bit more, to see if one of them would show its face again, no such luck.
Anyway, he is a blurry blob in most photos so, I am presenting the least blurriest to get an ID for:
#284 Brown Creeper Califor
