From the second to the eighth of December 2021, I was on a bird trip with Rockjumper in Southern California: "California Southern Specialties" - and we probably managed to see a glimpse of all the "specialties" except the Mountain quail. To "land" in a reasonably correct time rhythm, I arrived the day before the excursion began. Part of the time I spent watching birds in our base, Pasadena. Outside Fuller Theological Seminary, where I have several friends, I found this Black phoebe - a tyrant flycatcher that occurs in a narrow belt from California, through Mexico, all the way down to northwestern Argentina... It traditionally occurs in areas with flowing streams, but belongs to the category birds that are adaptable and can adapt to new biotopes - like here, a small garden outside a theological seminary, in the middle of the city of Pasadena.