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Foggy Doggy
A Coyote briefly pauses to consider me as it makes its way across a field after a rainstorm.
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Badger Pose
Any day you can spend with a badger is a good day. This was an especially good day. The badger wasn’t even the coolest thing that happened. Here’s everything I saw in one day: Magical day in Point Reyes.
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Rainy Day Snack
It’s been a while since I’ve posted one of my favorite subjects: soggy raptors. While most raptors hunker down to the best of their ability in the rain, American Kestrels will happily hunt in light to moderate rains. I assume their small bodies and high metabolisms means they can’t go that long between meals. Or
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Magical Day in Point Reyes
It had been a few weeks since my last significant photography outing. A visit to Point Reyes, my favorite place in the world, was in order. I would have been happy just to spend some time outdoors, even if I didn’t manage much photography. Instead, I was rewarded with one of the most magical days…
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Strut
I watched this Bobcat hunting along the side of the road. Once I had a sense of its direction of travel and tolerance for humans, I did a wide circle to position myself ahead of and offset from its path, with the sun at my back. It was truly my lucky day, as some noise
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Killdeer Hide
Cars make excellent hides for wildlife photography. I’m not sure I ever expected to use a car as a hide for shorebird photography. But, our wintering Killdeers often feed in grassy fields. When this one was pecking around on a small rise right next to the road, I was able to gingerly open my door
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Heterochromia
Notice something unusual about this Coyote? You may have heard that California has blue-eyed Coyotes. Recently, I saw something I’ve never seen or heard of before: a Coyote with one blue eye and one brown/yellow eye. I’ve heard of a Coyote with an injured eye that looked blue, but I think this is a different
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Snoozing Coyote
There are some moments that you know will stick with you for quite a while. I was having a quiet evening, watching the fog roll in on the bay. A Coyote walked up and curled up for its evening snooze, just barely 100 ft away from me. The Coyote slept through the sunset, waking up
