EPIC Coastal Forest Birding at Point Lobos State Natural Reserve 

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I love when you guys visit Rachel. Welcome back to California!

Excellent video guys. Really useful information on an area we must go see. Thank you 🇬🇧

Thanks for putting a spotlight on my favorite bird, the often-overlooked Hutton's Vireo!!!

my first field ecology class trip was to point lobos 15 or so years ago. i love your northern CA videos. Wish i could've ran into you guys birding in my neck of the wood

SUTA is insane, what a pull

Rachel's enthusiasm is infectious ! Great finds guys thanks for sharing !

Huttons vireos are cool birds. I got my lifer in San Antonio TX

I heard some bushtits in the Hutton's Vireo section!!

There like a right of passage when birding coastal california to tromp straight through the poison oak to find the rarities haha

That was a beautiful spot for birding in California.

First time hearing someone describing a bird as bulk, not too shabby. I too am a bit bulk.

I would've love to booking a tour with rachel😃🐦 but...i live in sweden and have not money enough😩😄

That is SO cool! The gull in the picnic area was a character hehe - and it says a lot about how visitors tend to behave, in that it's obvious folks aren't mean to the birds and also probably don't feed them TOO much. I would expect gulls to kinda be in the habit of bullying humans if they got too used to successfully begging. It also made me think about the birds at Walt Disney World in Florida. I'm sure that it's no surprise at all to hear that those birds are 1000% not afraid of people, will frequently walk RIGHT up to you if you're sitting on a bench, and just kind of spend their days hanging out and grabbing whatever they can. There were - I think lesser egret? smallish white water bird, egret shaped anyway - but there were three of them in one area, just sort of wandering from bench to bench and table to table in the nearby dining patio. Came right up to me and my brother and just sorta eyed us, then literally reached out and (gently!) tapped my arm like "ahem. please to give food." I had no food however and so Mister Bird left after he figured that out, ha! There were also white herons all over the place, not huge ones but ubiquitous, and we teased my younger sister that one specific bird was just following her all over the park. (No idea if that was true, but they all looked very similar and SHE believed it, so, good times!) It's good that the gulls you encountered at this place were not THAT cheeky, right!

3:14 Was that taken at Point Lobos?!?! That subspecies, especially a young bird like that does not breed there and that would be a cool record.

Funny here in California "Central California" means like the Central Valley. We split it neatly into north and south, there's no central in that aspect. And the Central Valley doesn't have good views or WHWO 😂

Are you guys going after condors while you’re out there?