Meerkats may be the most famous of the animals living at Meerkat Manor, but are they the cutest? Challenging them hard for the title of 'cutest animals at ( Read more... )

I haven't yet posted any photos from my most recent trip to Yosemite, which coincided with this:

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I have some property up near Rackerby (CA) where I have put trail cameras out in the woods. These have picked up all the usual nocturnal critters -- skunks, foxes, raccoons, feral cats, stray dogs -- and last month, for the first time ever, a ringtail.
And so, in glorious monochrome, here is a ringtail wandering up a log:

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A couple of weekends ago I went for another trip with Elkhorn Slough Safaris, for more photographs of the sea otters. And the other animals. But mostly the sea otters.
The highlight for this trip was watching a male otter in pursuit of a female.

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There was rain at the Oakland Zoo today. I checked the weather forecast while I was hiding in the reptile house. "40% chance of showers", it said. Apparently "showers" is the new weather forecaster code for "a prolonged downpour of near biblical ferocity. You will be wet." And I was.
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We went to see Van Helsing on our first day at the Manor, and this was before I had got into the proper rhythm of meerkat photography, which involves taking copious notes to be able to identify the meerkats later. Consequently I don't have identified photos for many of the Van Helsing meerkats.
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Random sea otter hanging out with the sea lions at Santa Cruz pier on Friday.

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Mother and baby otter at Rodeo Lagoon. There are two baby otters in the Rodeo Lagoon family this summer.

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A cute pair of young chipmunks that we encountered while hiking the Skyline-to-the-Sea trail on Sunday.

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I realize that I haven't yet posted any photos of my new ratties. These pretty boys came into my life in April this year.

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