This grebe was swimming in the mouth of the Arroyo Sjenka, as the tide flowed back to the ocean (picture 3).
The bird was by itself, and I only saw it once in four days at the locality.
This pair of seed snipes (picture 1 = male; picture 2 = female). were foraging in the open habitat (picture 3) on the mesa above the estuary.
They were comparatively tame, and stayed within a couple of meters of one another as they foraged in this open habitat.
These two seed snipes (picture 2) were part of a group of five birds that were foraging in the open mesa habitat (picture 3). It is possible that these two birds were the same ones that I photographed two days earlier, but this time the group of birds was larger than before.