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Blue Hour Whimbrel at Ocean Beach
There’s no better time than blue hour to photograph birds at busy urban beaches. You get an amazing variety of colors in the span of 20-30 minutes, and the number of dogs finally gets to a manageable level.
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Double Badger Surprise
As far as I can tell there’s no real shortcut to finding badgers. I’ve seen advice like look for fresh diggings (darker dirt), but my most recent sightings have all been in fairly old holes. The main thing is spending lots of time in the field, taking a close look at all the dirt mounts,…
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Scouting Oakwood Valley Trail
I tried out Outwood Valley Trail in the Marin Headlands this weekend. The trail is at the bottom of a gulley, looping around both banks of a stream. Going clockwise from the trailhead, the trail goes uphill as Oakwood Valley Trail and then back downhill as Oakwood Meadow Trail. eBird just lists the whole loop…
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Otter Sand Bath
Otter taking a sand bath in Point Reyes. Photographing these fellows is tough. The minute they come out of the water, they take a nice sand bath… or it would be a nice sand bath, if they didn’t also use the bank as a latrine 🤦♂️.
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Curlew Attitude
Long-billed curlew showing some ‘tude at Ocean Beach.
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Tule Elk With Unshed Antlers
I took this photo Memorial Day weekend, and the elk still has what looks like last year’s antlers.
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Surprise Badger
American badger popping out of a den at Point Reyes. I’d like to pretend that a great deal of skillful detective work and understanding of animal behavior went into this photo. Honestly, I pretty much stumbled onto the badger. From the look on its face, we were equally surprised to see each other. I dropped…
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Snowy Plover Sandstorm
Snowy plover standing on a sand drift
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California Quail Peekaboo
California quail peeking out of the coyote brush.
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Panoramic Coyote
Coyote roaming the rolling hills of Point Reyes.