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Spotted Towhee in the Coyote Brush
A rancher suing to keep cattle in Point Reyes got a profile in the San Francisco Chronicle this week. The profile said he “fears for the future of Point Reyes” which is “choked with coyote brush” in areas where the park no longer allows grazing. I don’t understand how someone could say that who walks
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Stacking Owls
These owls were kind of enough to line up in roughly the same focal plane just before sunset.
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The Chase
I rarely see Bobcats run. Seeing a Bobcat run in my general direction is especially rare. I’m not sure what caused it here. Urgent appointment with a gopher?
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Happy International Day of the Seal
Northern Elephant Seals are a huge conservation success story. They were hunted almost to extinction in the 19th century, as a prized source of lubricant and lamp oil. They were believed extinct until an 1892 Smithsonian expedition found a small colony with eight individuals far off the coast of Mexico. To document this momentous find,
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On The Fence
Normally I don’t like photos of animals on barbed wire fences. In fact (dirty secret time) in most of my photos of a bird perched on a solitary fence post, I’ve carefully cloned out the barbed wire. But, I think the wire really ties this photo together. Hopefully, with the buyouts of the ranches at
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Standing Tall
I got a real bumper crop of Long-Tailed Weasels this month. This was the second weasel I saw on the same day!
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Phoenix Lake and Yolanda Trail
I don’t do a lot of landscape photography, but I was inspired by a hike yesterday in the Mount Tamalpais Watershed. I’m training up for a 5 day backpacking trip in Yellowstone this fall. Unfortunately I almost immediate injured my Achilles tendon, so I’m stuck at 500-600 ft elevation gain hikes while I rehab it.
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Home Sweet Home
Whenever possible, you want your photos to tell a story. Sometimes it’s a complicated story. Sometimes it’s very simple. This Long-Tailed Weasel lives in a hole in a grassy field. I was really pleased to get the weasel coming out of a well-defined hole in a reasonably sized dirt mound. Just the right amount of
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Foggy Doggy
A Coyote briefly pauses to consider me as it makes its way across a field after a rainstorm.
