San Diego 2009

Just a few days, and only actually a few hours of freedom, in San Diego for the San Diego Birding Festival. My yearly visit to Mission Bay and Point Lomas, plus an evening at the waterfront downtown (The Fish Market). Always something to see and photograph. Several weeks late this year, due to changes in festival dates, and just different enough to notice: Pepper Trees in full bloom, more wildfowers, different bird behaviors. They don't call it paradise for nothing!