A major offshore oil spill has fouled Orange County beaches and wetlands with crude.
The spill had reached Talbert Marsh and some environmentally sensitive wetlands areas by Sunday morning. It will take time to know the extent of the damage but officials said some birds and fish have died.
A bird attempts to feed as oil-coated waves come ashore in Huntington Beach.
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Workers with Patriot Environmental Services collect bags of oil-soaked pads and other debris during cleanup at Talbert Marsh in Huntington Beach on Sunday.
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Oil absorbent booms are used by workers with Patriot Environmental Services to clean up oil that flowed into the Talbert Marsh in Huntington Beach on Sunday.
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Booms trap oil flowing through the Talbert Channel,
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A fish swims amid floating globs of oil off the Orange County coast.
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A swimmer called in by a lifeguard emerges from oily water onto the fouled beach at the border of Huntington Beach and Newport Beach.
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Lifeguard vehicles face the water at Huntington Beach where oil-containment booms are put in place by boats offshore.
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A swimmer bobs in the oily water before being called in by a lifeguard at the border of Huntington Beach and Newport Beach.
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A sign warns visitors to stay out of the water because of the oil spill at the Huntington Beach Pier on Sunday.
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A strand of darkened sand reveals the edge of an oil slick from an offshore pipeline leak at Huntington State Beach.
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Globs of oil carried in by the high tide formed patterns on the border of Huntington Beach and Newport Beach.
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Oil lines the beach as a bird runs to avoid the incoming tide on the border of Huntington Beach and Newport Beach on Sunday.
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A jogger keeps his distance from fouled shoreline at the border of Newport Beach and Huntington Beach on Sunday morning.
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A man takes photographs near a containment boom placed to trap oil at the border of Huntington Beach and Newport Beach.
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