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Peregrine At Pt. Reyes

admin — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:00:04 +0000

I was down on McClure’s Beach and had stopped photographing for a while so I could eat a ham and turkey wrap I’d brought along. I sat in the sand looking out over the ocean at the passing pelicans and the dozens upon dozens of recreational fishing boats offshore. Most were far away to the north, but a few were much closer.

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Peregrine At Pt. Reyes

White Pelicans Over Abbotts Lagoon

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:00:02 +0000

On my way back from Tomales Point and McClure’s Beach I spotted a small flock of American White Pelicans circling above Abbotts Lagoon. As their circles took them higher, they drifted off to the southeast. I usually think of white pelicans as winter birds, but apparently (according to this DFG brochure ) they can be seen at any time of the year.

Buzzworm On The Benstein

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:34:17 +0000

Although I’d been looking for rattlesnakes at a likely spot earlier in the day, I didn’t find one — I mean, one didn’t find me — until I was heading back to the Jeep from High Marsh. The trail is almost all uphill on the way back, and I took the opportunity to get some exercise by picking up the pace

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Bristlecone Pines

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:00:05 +0000

We hoped to view sunset from the Patriarch Grove on the day we arrived at the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, so after setting up the tent and resting awhile we got back in the Jeep and headed up to 11,000 feet. It’s almost 20 miles from the campground to the highest of the two main groves, and everything beyond the lower Schulman Grove is unpaved.

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Pixels, Picas and Points, Oh My!

admin — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:09:40 +0000

You know you’re not in Kansas anymore when inches simply won’t do. Although I use Photoshop CS4, I’ve had the whole CS2 package for several years. Only now have I decided to buckle down and learn something about one of the non-Photoshop programs, that being InDesign

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Muir Woods

admin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 03:06:06 +0000

I had more than one moment of doubt this morning concerning the wisdom of getting out of bed after about five hours’ sleep and driving across the Golden Gate Bridge to Muir Woods National Monument. The first moment arrived at a little past 6 a.m., when I found the entrance to Muir Woods gated, locked and verboten . Ditto for the overflow lot, and none of the park’s signs indicated an opening time

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TV Icon

admin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:00:07 +0000

I can think of at least one trail marker in Tennessee Valley that incorporates a picture of a Great Blue Heron, and if the park has an animal icon, I guess that would be it. (I wanted to look into it more, but the NPS web page for T.V. is broken.) Although Tennessee Valley is the first place I ever saw a Great Egret capture a rodent, it’s been months since I last saw a large egret or heron in

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Coyote In The Grass

admin — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:15:12 +0000

As I was driving along Bolinas Ridge I spotted three deer standing still as fenceposts and intently focused on something in front of them. I backed up to a nearby pull-out to see what was going on, and only after I stopped and rolled down the tinted window did I spot the coyote sitting in the grass, maybe 40-50 yards from the young deer, one of whom was a buck.

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Duxbury Reef

admin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:00:02 +0000

It was Friday and I’d been wanting to get back up to Mt. Burdell to check on the vernal pool, but there was a chance my wife could join me for a hike there over the weekend, so I thought about a return trip to Duxbury Reef instead. I checked the tide table on my desk calendar and saw there’d be a minus tide at 6:30 in the morning, so off I went

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Elk Sunrise

admin — Fri, 28 May 2010 21:48:48 +0000

Having stopped at Nicasio Reservoir to photograph the Black Mountain dawn, there was very little chance I was going to make it to Abbotts Lagoon by sunrise. I considered trying for nearby Kehoe Beach since it’s a shorter walk to the interesting bits, but there wasn’t a cloud in the sky, and even the usual pastel-pink horizon was just about played out by the time I reached Pierce Point Road