A Red-tailed Hawk rises with the thermals on the western slopes of Coyote Hills Regional Park. I snapped this image on the tail end of yesterday’s hike along the marshes and pelican ponds.

You’ll hear Soras more often than you’ll see them. But once in a while you’ll be lucky enough to experience both — when the characteristic Sora call precedes a visual of the Sora wading through the shallows. Soras are in the rail family, not rare, even if they are elusive. They share a lineage with
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Photos of a Great Horned Owl perched in Strawberry Canyon in Berkeley.

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H. (aka The Detective) posted his own photo of this sign online and received the following comment: “Please feed the Mountain Lion your child as sacrifice.”
These panels do seem to promote some questionable strategies . . . even if the text advocates sensible human-lion interaction. Stick figures are, after all, internationally fluid symbols. In
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