April 2010

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Wildlife Rescue in Gulf Oil Spill

April 30, 2010 Pollution & Trash

Wildlife oil spill experts are on the scene in Louisiana, setting up emergency centers and assessing the damage from the Deepwater Horizon spill.

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A Different Kind of Bear: Woolly

April 29, 2010 Bug Nation

It’s sometimes hard to believe the stories about caterpillar swarms so large, their leaf crunching wakes people in the mornings …

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Golden Gate Pigeon

April 28, 2010

Snapped this through a mist at Crissy Field — a resting pigeon with a backdrop of the Golden Gate Bridge. I liked the scrim effect behind this bird. And, of course, the iconic San Francisco nature of the pigeon’s setting.

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A Jumper

April 26, 2010 Arachnids/Spiders

This Red-Backed Jumping Spider was in “I’m outta here” mode before my lens even moved in.

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The Peregrine Nest Cam is Back

April 26, 2010 Bay Area Faves

Last year was a bitch for San Francisco’s Peregrine parents. None of their three fledglings survived life in the city.

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Nest Bound

April 25, 2010 Perching Birds

This Robin was building a nest, low in a trellis at a public park. I kept my distance while shooting this image, but kept wishing she would reconsider the positioning of the nest.

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Faces in Food

April 23, 2010 Studies in Vagueness

If I could find more faces in food, this would be a regular series.

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59 Minutes with the Raynox

April 22, 2010 Bay Area Faves

That means 59 minutes of lunch hour when I could have been eating, drinking, working, napping but was instead, roaming a garden with my FZ50 and Raynox in hand.

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High Tech Wildlife Rehab

April 21, 2010 Marine Mammals

The view from the Marine Mammal Center’s visiting area, above the rehab pens for sea lions and other Marine Mammals.

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Mixed Use, Pelican Style

April 21, 2010 Pelicans

You know that I’m into “mixed use” and reclamation as it relates to creating viable, urban habitat for wildlife. Seeing a goose, for example, with its wings outstretched against a backdrop of Port of Oakland shipping cranes is just awesome to me …
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To Sleep & Dream

April 18, 2010 Mammals

Not in the Shakespearean sense . . .

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Spotted Towhee in Berkeley

Of Towhees, Tripods and Trust

April 18, 2010 Bay Area Faves

I’m extra cautious out there as a photographing fool. I feel I owe the animals my respect when they allow me into their inner sanctum to photograph them …

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Blog Trail: John Wall’s Natural California

April 18, 2010

In a previous post, I mentioned Trish Carney’s Wild Lives blog — where I can enjoy life with bobcats, vicariously. My own encounters with bobcats tend to be peripheral . . . as in, there’s a bobcat . . . and he’s posed perfectly out of range, thank you.

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Fennel

Phases of Fennel

April 17, 2010 Bay Area Faves

The fragrance of fennel always takes me to Southern California . . . to the untamed hillside of my parents’ home . . . years ago now . . . where she and my dad landed after a lifetime of soaking up maritime fog . . .

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Little Flying Monkeys

April 17, 2010 Bay Area

Damselfly faces seem expressive — awesome, wide-eyed, bulbous monkey gazes …

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Brewer's Blackbird Male

Blackbird Singing in the Dead of Day …

April 17, 2010 Perching Birds

I planted myself in the middle of a field for this shot, watching a male and female Brewer’s blackbird forage around me — for insects, seeds, fruit …
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The Face of Restoration

April 15, 2010 Domestic Animals

This face is helping Coyote Hills Regional Park manage non-native plant numbers …

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Forster’s in Flight

April 15, 2010 Gulls & Terns

When you first encounter terns, their mid-air, hairpin turns seem unpredictable and difficult to capture — especially since these birds are quite small when you’re thinking about filling the frame.

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Never Underestimate a Cattail

April 14, 2010 Bay Area

Today, I watched a Marsh Wren collect soft fibers from the head of a cattail — and dive into the abyss of cattail leaves to build up a hidden nest.

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Drop

April 12, 2010 Photography

Droplet adorning a tree branch on April’s last rainy day.

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You Will Study the Wisdom of the Past

April 11, 2010 Studies in Vagueness

“Cardozo’s words, while inspiring, were not inspiring enough to inject any vigor into the pathetic, book reading blob I have become, but they were enough to remind me of something I’ve wondered before . . .”

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Patriotic Red-Tail

April 9, 2010 Raptors

I didn’t realize until I came upon this photo today, that I have a minor theme in my image archives: birds posing with flags. This is the first bird-patriot picture to creep into the Today’s Photo feature.

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One Tree, Many Lives

April 9, 2010 Bay Area Faves

Every spring, the wood chipper shows up. One morning, Fargo-like, it just appears . . . always while I’m in my bathrobe, never after I’ve quaffed my caffeine . . .

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Melee

April 8, 2010 Gulls & Terns

No notes on this one . . . just gulls doing what gulls do . . . a skirmish over a bit of food. Okay, one note . . .
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All Right, Mr. DeMille . . .

April 6, 2010 Non-Native Species

This umbrella was left behind in a park where some of San Francisco’s wild parrot flock was foraging for dropped fruit in the grass.

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Sharpie . . . Probably

April 4, 2010 Raptors

I shot this image of a Sharpie or Cooper’s at Mt. Tamalpais Cemetery last week, and ran the photo by my resident expert, Bird Master. She thought it was a Sharpie, but couldn’t say with certainty in the absence of a more detailed photo.

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Blog Trail: Shooting My Universe

April 4, 2010 Corvids

Steve Borichevsky’s blog, Shooting My Universe, is one I’ve been following for a time. It’s one photographer’s view of Cape Ann, Massachusetts (and beyond). His latest post — The Crow — inspired today’s cross-link.

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Easter in an Altered State

April 4, 2010

My Babushka (“Baba”) wouldn’t have considered this Lawrence Welk vid the least bit hallucinogenic. It was her Saturday-night reality. (Even if weed-butter was a delicacy in the homeland.) Happy Easter, everyone.

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City On (and Behind) Hills

April 3, 2010 California

“I don’t know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighborhoods, and you’re never out of sight of the wild hills. Nature is very close here.”

~ Gary Snyder (poet)

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The Penultimate Waxwing

April 3, 2010 Bay Area Faves

Every Cedar Waxwing is the penultimate waxwing. Even though I think each image I snap in March or April will be the last of the season, invariably, another flock of waxwings descends for a photo op.

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