Wrentit

We paid our last visit this morning to Arroyo Verde Park in Ventura, before heading back to Los Angeles. We saw new things, including this Wrentit (Chamaea fasciata). It's a bird that typically flits around in desert bush, and very difficult to properly see (though not especially); I was delighted to get this image, in shadow (despite the bright leaves)--quite distant and thus substantially cropped.

Acorn woodpeckers were another feature, flocking together and chattering noisily as they actively gathered acorns, much more than we'd ever experienced them (here's a blip from nearly three years ago, in Arizona.

Back in L.A. we went to the Getty Center and its musem--our first visit in quite a number of years. It is a sprawling complex, with exteriors almost entirely of travertine. I had forgotten how impressive it is. That's all for now--it's late and we take our return plane early tomorrow.