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	<title> &#187; Bay Area</title>
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	<description>Bay Area Nature and Seattle Nature in Photos</description>
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		<title>Texturizing a Storm</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2010/11/texturizing-a-storm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro I saw a crow yesterday, seized in midair by a gale. Just five feet from her tree, she paddled against the swell like a swimmer in an Endless Pool. I may not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Favorite Flickr Moments . . .</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2010/11/favorite-flickr-moments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[. . . when a Flickr comment captures an image better than you did . . . I shot this photo at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, during a break in one of last winter&#8217;s storms. The winds buffeted the bluffs so hard, the ravens were flinging themselves into the headwinds, stationary &#8212; suspended in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So Long, Lake Merritt</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2010/08/so-long-lake-merritt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 06:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lake Merritt was the first place I touched soil -- or rather, marine sediment --after returning to the Bay Area from Los Angeles. We were perched above Oakland in a hotel room with just a sliver of a view, looking at the lake through what amounted to a castle loophole. ]]></description>
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		<title>Dragonfly or Damselfly? A Few Clues</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2010/05/dragonfly-or-damselfly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefreequark.com/2010/05/dragonfly-or-damselfly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 07:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Re-posted from last year &#8212; in tribute to burgeoning life on the springtime pond. In this melee of global strife and catastrophe, there&#8217;s at least one thing you can know for sure: dragonfly or damselfly. I blame the awesome macro of my telephoto lens for this post. I went to UC Berkeley Botanical Garden for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ravens of Ocean Beach</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2010/05/the-ravens-of-ocean-beach/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefreequark.com/2010/05/the-ravens-of-ocean-beach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 09:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With onshore winds, Ocean Beach is my favorite place to photograph ravens. Along the Great Highway, these feathered balls of onyx launch into the wind like superheroes, hovering over the beach below with tails trailing like capes. I had some time to kill after an appointment in the Sunset. I grabbed my camera and headed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Saucy Sailor Boy</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2010/05/the-saucy-sailor-boy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 09:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a weakness for bad lyrics, and 18th century sea chanties like The Saucy Sailor Boy probably take the prize. If you live here in San Francisco, you can take the kids (or just your own self) to Hyde Pier for monthly (and free) Sea Chanty Sing-a-Longs. You&#8217;ll get hot cider if you bring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never Underestimate a Cattail</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2010/04/never-underestimate-a-cattail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefreequark.com/2010/04/never-underestimate-a-cattail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. 

<a href="http://www.thefreequark.com/2010/04/never-underestimate-a-cattail/">[read full post ...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mine!</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2010/03/territorial-mute-swan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This swan took issue with the duck's proximity -- a Blue-winged Teal just minding her own business, dabbling in the pond with her Blue-winged mates.

<a href="http://www.thefreequark.com/2010/03/territorial-mute-swan/">[see the full-size image ...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mudbath</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2010/03/mudbath/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefreequark.com/2010/03/mudbath/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m keen to see eyes peering out of mudflats . . . the creatures from the bog, the foraging carp, the bullfrog in camo, a Pacific chorus frog in a dewdrop. I shot this photo at Blake Garden, just north of Berkeley in the Kensington Hills. My vision is tuned to anomalies and, sure enough, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Newt Commute</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2010/02/the-great-newt-commute/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefreequark.com/2010/02/the-great-newt-commute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefreequark.com/?p=3585</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Great Newt Commute is what happens on the way to the Great Newt Party. From the first winter rains through early spring, California Newts migrate from their summer homes to their winter breeding grounds &#8212; to ponds and streams where they mate and lay eggs before trundling back up the hills and into burrows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Above SF From Twin Peaks</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/11/tonight-from-twin-peaks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/11/tonight-from-twin-peaks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s the magic towers of a steel fairyland &#8212; the beacon atop the proud Mark, the red, thermometer-like cap of the Drake, the sturdy, four-square crest of Mother Russ, the sudden, blunt end of Coit Tower &#8212; that make up the minarets of a metropolis . . .&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s the indescribable conglomeration of beauty and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Unheralded Hulet Hornbeck</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/11/the-unheralded-hulet-hornbeck/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/11/the-unheralded-hulet-hornbeck/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until this week, I didn&#8217;t know how much gratitude I owed Mr. Hulet Hornbeck. The sign below marks the head of a commemorative trail at Carquinez Strait Regional Shoreline &#8212; a park in the vast and lovely East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD). When Hornbeck began his tenure as Chief of Land Acquisition for EBRPD [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ghostliness of Black Diamond Mines</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/10/the-ghostliness-of-black-diamond-mines/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/10/the-ghostliness-of-black-diamond-mines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve isn&#8217;t haunted, but it&#8217;s a park grown upon the ghosts of California&#8217;s history. In terms of our earliest history, the spirit of the Ohlone and Miwok people still permeates the land. When I stand on our remaining wild hilltops, I look to the expanse of tract development over what, by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black and White</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/10/black-and-white/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/10/black-and-white/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I almost expected Man-Thing to come crawling out of the mud this morning. The humidity evoked spirits of the bayou: moss, mosquitos, mint juleps. The only time California resembles a swamp is in the wake of a tropical storm, the same wake which pummeled us with record rains a few days ago. We did about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Old Docks Go to Die</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/10/old-berkeley-marina-docks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/10/old-berkeley-marina-docks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Old docks smell, this much I can tell you. You&#8217;ll catch a whiff of decomposing mussels and sea greens long before you ever see the old boards stacked, as these particular boards were, in the parking lot of the Berkeley Marina. The Marina is renovating &#8212; replacing the old A-B-C docks with improved versions. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reclaimed: Las Gallinas Wildlife Ponds</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/10/las-gallinas-wildlife-ponds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/10/las-gallinas-wildlife-ponds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reclamation is among my favorite themes -- especially as it pertains to nature. I root for the vines overtaking fire hydrants and windblown seeds germinating new habitat in former refuse sites...]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing the Sora</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/09/seeing-the-sora/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/09/seeing-the-sora/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ll hear Soras more often than you&#8217;ll see them. But once in a while you&#8217;ll be lucky enough to experience both &#8212; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secret Digs of the Great Horned Owl</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/09/secret-digs-of-the-great-horned-owl/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/09/secret-digs-of-the-great-horned-owl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Raptors]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[great horned owl]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[owls]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Photos of a Great Horned Owl perched in Strawberry Canyon in Berkeley.]]></description>
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		<title>Visiting Hours Over</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/08/visiting-hours-over/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/08/visiting-hours-over/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bay Area]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Turkey, Quail et al]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tilden park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wild turkeys]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A male Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) roots around just before dusk at the Nature Center in Tilden Park.]]></description>
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		<title>Bees and Their Fennel</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/08/bees-and-their-fennel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/08/bees-and-their-fennel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bay Area]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bug Nation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Edibles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fennel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[honeybees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[macros]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[northern california]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It never fails that fennel is the best medium for my bee photography -- even if it does render consistently yellow backdrops for my bee images...

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