Homage to Cesar Chavez in Berkeley
** Photo usage and restrictions If you venture into the off-leash area atop the hills of Cesar Chavez Park in the Berkeley Marina, you’ll come upon a place of remembrance along with a worshipful look...
View ArticleAn American Bullfrog in Berkeley
I don’t usually ignore visual anomalies. They bring me to interesting things. On this Berkeley day, something seemed out of place — that nagging oddity in my periphery. I turned and looked closer in...
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Return to the Mother Ship
This honey bee was one of a stream of honey bees, hypnotized into the maw of this cactus flower.
View ArticleThe Goldfinch and Thistle (A Pub With No Pints)
The Bay Area has a thistle problem, or so we hear, but goldfinches weren’t complaining on our hike yesterday. Here’s a photo of that Artichoke Thistle (Cynara cardunculus), taken last week in Tilden...
View ArticleVisiting Hours Over
A male Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) roots around just before dusk at the Nature Center in Tilden Park.
View ArticleSecret Digs of the Great Horned Owl
Photos of a Great Horned Owl perched in Strawberry Canyon in Berkeley.
View ArticleWhere Old Docks Go to Die
Old docks smell, this much I can tell you. You’ll catch a whiff of decomposing mussels and sea greens long before you ever see the old boards stacked, as these particular boards were, in the parking...
View ArticleThanksgiving Tribute to Berkeley’s Turkeys
Photo collage of wild turkeys in Berkeley. The photos were taken in the Berkeley hills and in Tilden Park.
View ArticleThe Great Newt Commute
The Great Newt Commute is what happens on the way to the Great Newt Party. From the first winter rains through early spring, California Newts migrate from their summer homes to their winter breeding...
View ArticleShowdown at Berkeley Marina
“This country ain’t big enough for the two of us. So I’m giving you ’til sundown to get out of town.” ~ The Virginian
View Article59 Minutes with the Raynox
That means 59 minutes of lunch hour when I could have been eating, drinking, working, napping but was instead, roaming a garden with my FZ50 and Raynox in hand.
View ArticleThe Turkeys I’ve [Almost] Known
This post is a tribute to the wild turkeys who walk among us. Every year, Hugh and I Adopt a Turkey from Farm Sanctuary. And every year, I try to somehow commemorate the awesomeness of the wild turkeys...
View ArticleStudies in Godwit
Every so often, I get a request for ‘derivative works’ permission — usually from a wildlife artist who wants to use a photo as the foundation for a painting or print. I particularly love it when the...
View ArticleBird Verse: Eastern Gods
They are eastern gods — they meditate. (Yes they are.) “The Owls” by Charles Baudelaire (translated by Edna St. Vincent Millay) The owls that roost in the black yew Along one limb in solemn state, And...
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