This photo inspired this post:
I uploaded it to Flickr — where one of my favorite Flickr people had this to say:
It bothers me when people call them “ugly” or something like that . . . We have to learn and to accept . . . that all the living things are ok – that they
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Years ago, I found a book on animal totems — after pulling an all-nighter with a Navajo friend who clued us in to the shamanistic roots of animal guides and animal medicine. In this Native American spiritual tradition, we each have nine totem animals who walk with us on this life path. They appear when
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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.

Photos of a Great Horned Owl perched in Strawberry Canyon in Berkeley.

This video compresses days 20 to 32 in the lives of three Peregrine Falcon eyasses (chicks) nesting in the PG&E building in downtown San Francisco. See photos and visual logs of the young San Francisco Peregrines in local photographer Glenn Nevill’s Raptor Galleries. And learn more about the Peregrine Falcon research at the website of
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I just read this piece by British Columbia wildlife biologist David Hancock. It’s posted at the Hancock Wildlife Foundation website, a site I found by way of their Bald Eagle cam at Sidney, B.C.
Hancock’s account traces the eagle’s trajectory from pre-1950s “vermin” status to today’s recovery of populations in both urban and wild settings. The
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If you tune into UCSC’s Peregrine Nest Cam while the youngsters are stumbling over themselves, it might be tough to connect these awkward chicks to their agile parents — who happen to be the fastest birds in the skies. Peregrine Falcons are also the speediest creatures on the planet. Their stoop (diving) speeds can exceed
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