
I visited four places in the Tijuana River Valley on a Thursday mid-June morning. I started at the Bird and Butterfly Garden to be teased by Black-Throated Magpie-Jays. I followed with a bike ride to the Tijuana River Mouth where terns (Least & Forster’s) and plovers (Snowy) played in the sand and surf for me. Then I drove to the main Dairy Mart Pond where a Mallard family and Pied-Billed Grebes gained my attention. My final stop was at the nearby “Stick Pond” along Dairy Mart Road where I was entertained by a juvenile Green Heron.
Birds I met on this expedition were Black-Throated Magpie-Jay, Forster’s Tern, Least Tern, Snowy Plover, Pied-Billed Grebe, Mallard, Green Heron.

Mallard(Anas platyrhynchos) |
Description: Juvenile at the Dairy Mart Ponds, in the Tijuana River Valley Regional Park, San Diego County, California. |
Date Taken: 2013:06:13 9:37 |
Location:
Tijuana River Regional Park |
Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/5.6, 1/800 |
File Name: D3X9451-Mallard-Juvenile |
© 2013 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |


Description: |
Date Taken: 2013:06:13 14:25 |
Camera Information: |
File Name: 20130613-TijuanaRiverValley |
© 2013 - Jack Daynes - shadeTree Imaging |


Green Heron(Butorides virescens) |
Description: Juvenile at the Dairymart Ponds, in the Tijuana River Valley Regional Park, San Diego County, California. |
Date Taken: 2013:06:13 11:17 |
Location:
Tijuana River Regional Park |
Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: D3X9541-GreenHeron-Juvenile |
© 2013 Jack Daynes, shadeTree Imaging |


Green Heron(Butorides virescens) |
Description: Juvenile at the Dairymart Ponds, in the Tijuana River Valley Regional Park, San Diego County, California. |
Date Taken: 2013:06:13 11:17 |
Location:
Tijuana River Regional Park |
Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/800 |
File Name: D3X9537-GreenHeron-Juvenile |
© 2013 Jack Daynes, shadeTree-Imaging |


Green Heron(Butorides virescens) |
Description: Juvenile at the Dairymart Ponds, in the Tijuana River Valley Regional Park, San Diego County, California. |
Date Taken: 2013:06:13 11:17 |
Location:
Tijuana River Regional Park |
Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1000 |
File Name: D3X9535-GreenHeron-Juvenile |
© 2013 Jack Daynes, shadeTree Imaging |


Green Heron(Butorides virescens) |
Description: Juvenile at the Dairymart Ponds, in the Tijuana River Valley Regional Park, San Diego County, California. |
Date Taken: 2013:06:13 11:08 |
Location:
Tijuana River Regional Park |
Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/400 |
File Name: D3X9508-GreenHeron-Juvenile |
© 2013 Jack Daynes, shadeTree Imaging |


Mallard(Anas platyrhynchos) |
Description: Female at the Dairy Mart Ponds, in the Tijuana River Valley Regional Park, San Diego County, California. |
Date Taken: 2013:06:13 9:37 |
Location:
Tijuana River Regional Park |
Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/5.6, 1/1000 |
File Name: D3X9454-Mallard-Female |
© 2013 Jack Daynes, shadeTree Imaging |


Mallard(Anas platyrhynchos) |
Description: Juveniles at the Dairy Mart Ponds, in the Tijuana River Valley Regional Park, San Diego County, California. |
Date Taken: 2013:06:13 9:30 |
Location:
Tijuana River Regional Park |
Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/5.6, 1/1250 |
File Name: D3X9438-Mallard-Juvenile |
© 2013 Jack Daynes, shadeTree Imaging |


Mallard(Anas platyrhynchos) |
Description: Family at the Dairymart Ponds, in the Tijuana River Valley Regional Park, San Diego County, California. |
Date Taken: 2013:06:13 9:28 |
Location:
Tijuana River Regional Park |
Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/5.6, 1/4000 |
File Name: D3X9427-Mallard-Family |
© 2013 Jack Daynes, shadeTree Imaging |


Pied-Billed Grebe(Podilymbus podiceps) |
Description: Juvenile at the Dairy Mart Ponds, in the Tijuana River Valley Regional Park, San Diego County, California. |
Date Taken: 2013:06:13 9:19 |
Location:
Tijuana River Regional Park |
Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/5.6, 1/400 |
File Name: D3X9401-PiedBilledGrebe-Juvenile |
© 2013 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |


Snowy Plover(Charadrius alexandrinus) |
Description: The Tijuana River Mouth, Imperial Beach, San Diego County, California. |
Date Taken: 2013:06:13 8:15 |
Location:
Tijuana River Mouth |
Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/5.6, 1/2500 |
File Name: D3X9368-SnowyPlover |
© 2013 Jack Daynes, shadeTree-Imaging |


Least Tern(Sternula antillarum) |
Description: The Tijuana River Mouth, Imperial Beach, San Diego County, California. |
Date Taken: 2013:06:13 7:59 |
Location:
Tijuana River Mouth |
Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/5.6, 1/2500 |
File Name: D3X9351-LeastTern |
© 2013 Jack Daynes, shadeTree Imaging |


Forster's Tern(Sterna forsteri) |
Description: The Tijuana River Mouth, Imperial Beach, San Diego County, California. |
Date Taken: 2013:06:13 7:37 |
Location:
Tijuana River Mouth |
Camera Information: NIKON D3X, 800 mm, f/5.6, 1/2000 |
File Name: D3X9344-ForstersTern |
© 2013 Jack Daynes, shadeTree Imaging |

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