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Misc Pics.
I've been meaning to post these since Spring. I don't think it matters how much time has passed since I took them, I just need to get over it and do it.
( April 2012: Mountain Snow, Seaside lichen, and Birding Bear River Ridge. ) -
Rare bird.
Overkill on the photos of a single subject. I fell in love with a rare bird: the Black-and-white Warbler. This lone warbler was most likely on her last reserves, nearing death in flight, on the wrong coast in a wretched storm, when she caught a glimpse of the dark black Cypress patch jutting out into the Pacific and through the pale gray fog. She ( Read more... ) -
February 2012, Northern California.
Sorely behind, so I've compiled a mishmash of photos from the past month.
( Top tier for the month of February. ) -
Winter Wildlife Takes Refuge.
A few weekends ago I took a small trip to a winter bird migration mecca I would never have expected--The Central Valley of California, North of Sacramento. It's so easy to pass it all by, from the interstate highway it appears as a long expanse of flooded agricultural flatlands, boring and brown. The area is known for its proliferation of waterfowl ( Read more... ) -
Demanding a detour.
On my way back (to my northern) home through the southern portion of the Humboldt Redwoods, the avenue of the giants. Nothing too spectacular to be conveyed given the light lacking deep within the forest floor.
( Redwood State Park: Avenue of the Giants. ) -
Catching up from the last few months: October.
It was one of those untouchable, beautiful days. Sweating couldn't even distract you from noticing it. An apple cider kind of sun, the color of October. A Merlin cut through the clear air; there were even Bluebirds in bundles. It was our last field day in the Headwaters Forest Reserve studying understory composition and its relation to redwood ( Read more... )
