Catch of the Day – Vivid Dancer Damselflies
Picture Canyon Natural and Cultural Preserve Flagstaff, AZ September 5, 2022 We are in Flagstaff for two months. Now that my broken arm is healing and we’re over Covid, [...]
Picture Canyon Natural and Cultural Preserve Flagstaff, AZ September 5, 2022 We are in Flagstaff for two months. Now that my broken arm is healing and we’re over Covid, [...]
Sonny Bono National Wildlife Refuge Calipatria, CA March 2022 I don’t normally go to extremes to get photographs. I am an image opportunist, a scavenger [...]
Ben Lomond, CA 8/25/22 This Merriam's Chipmunk sat in a crevice of a badly burned but still living large redwood tree. The base of all the redwoods around us [...]
Grebes are a special group of diving aquatic birds found in both marine and, more commonly, fresh water. They differ from ducks in a [...]
(Russian Ridge Open Space, San Mateo County, CA) "Here she stopped and, closing her eyes, took a deep breath of the flower-scented air of the broad expanse around her. [...]
Return to the Cormorants Natural Bridges State Park Santa Cruz, CA Spring 2022 Notice, I did not say “Return OF the Cormorants” although they have returned to their nesting [...]
New Kids on the Block July 4, 2022 Ben Lomond, CA The new kids are Merriam's Chipmunk pups, a litter of five. Before the 2020 fires raged through this [...]
Barn Swallows, (Hirundo rustica) Baylands Nature Preserve, Palo Alto, CA July, 19, 2022 It’s rare to see swallows sitting still on a branch! Here is a male adult barn [...]
Juvenile House Finch (Haemorhous mexicanus) Los Altos Hills, CA July 11, 2022 I saw this juvenile house finch fluttering awkwardly in a cedar tree. It looked almost too young [...]
The Sad Evanescence of Wildflowers (Wildflowers Part II) Photos from April 4-24, 2020 (Originally posted in May 2020.) It's what makes wildflowers so extraordinary: they come unbidden and last [...]