East Bay

Buddha at Crown Beach

May 8, 2009 Art

The Awakened One, catching the last rays of light at Elsie Roemer Bird Sanctuary in Alameda. (See this short piece for symbolic insight: Buddha Statues Have Meaning Head to Toe). ©ingrid Taped to the statue: Today is absolutely today Today is not yesterday Today is not tomorrow ~ Ogui ©ingrid

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More Alameda Terns: Caspian, Forster’s, Least Terns

May 5, 2009 Bay Area

Take a look at this image of terns — not because it’s anything spectacular. In fact, those terns were but specks on my visual horizon, so this is a dramatic crop to show just one thing: the size differential between the Caspian Terns and the Forster’s Terns I wrote about in a previous post. The [...]

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There is a Season … Terns (Alameda Terns)

April 18, 2009 Bay Area

Lame Byrds pun aside . . . Forster’s Tern Nation in Alameda – Sterna forsteri ** Photo usage and restrictions Their gravelly call precedes them, these Forster’s Terns (Sterna forsteri) with their fuzzy black berets and orange feet. They sound like aerial barflys with too much whiskey and smoke on the voice box. When it’s [...]

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Bay Area Painted Lady Butterflies Are Back

March 28, 2009 Bay Area

Bay Area residents are seeing them in the hundreds and thousands, these winged Painted Ladies making their way north on a regular migration. I didn’t realize they were pushing on through until we saw a blanket of these vivid wings swaying atop fruit blossoms. They honored us with a few poses before flitting up to [...]

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Walking the Bay Trail at San Leandro Marina

March 25, 2009 Bay Area

** Photo usage and restrictions The East Bay leg of the San Francisco Bay Trail has an extraordinary, long stretch from San Leandro Marina southward to the Hayward Shoreline. Where some of the Bay Trail jogs inland on paved roads, this particular portion runs alongside the Bay and through the heart of the marina itself. [...]

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Homage to Cesar Chavez in Berkeley

February 24, 2009 Bay Area

** Photo usage and restrictions If you venture into the off-leash area atop the hills of Cesar Chavez Park in the Berkeley Marina, you’ll come upon a place of remembrance along with a worshipful look north, south, east and west. The solar calendar built on this site pays homage to Cesar Chavez, his legacy commemorated [...]

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A Quiet Nation of Shorebirds – San Francisco Bay Area

December 7, 2008 Shorebirds

I try to stop by Arrowhead Marsh when I’m in the vicinity of Oakland Airport . . . which is quite a lot, considering I’m with a guy who, essentially, commutes to work by plane. It’s my consolation in solitude to stroll through the marshes with my camera after I bid farewell to Southwest or [...]

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Bird and Windmill Collisions at Altamont

December 3, 2008 Raptors

One of the tragic patients we get at the wildlife hospital where I volunteer is raptors such as hawks, who’ve suffered an encounter with a windmill. Unlike Quixote’s imaginary foes, the windmills through Altamont Pass present a viable lethal threat to wildlife of the area. In fact, Altamont Pass has the highest bird kill rate [...]

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