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California Scenes, Fall, 2018, #3
We left the Bay Area by way of Sonora Pass and then turned south on Hwy 395, which follows along the east side of the Sierras. You can’t beat the great mountain scenery that the drive down Hwy 395 brings … Continue reading
Posted in California, Geography, Nature, Photography, Uncategorized
Tagged Banner Pk CA, Big Pine CA, Bishop california, Bridgeport CA, Convict Lake CA, Gull Lake, John Muir Trail, Keeler needle CA, Laurel Mt CA, Leavitt Pk., Lone Pine california, Lone Pine Peak, Mammoth Mtn Ski Area, Matterhorn Pk CA, Minarets CA, Mono Lake, Mt Morrison CA, Mt Ritter CA, Mt. Emerson, Mt. Lamarck, Mt. Whitney, Palisades CA, Pine Creek Canyon CA, ruddy duck, Sawtooth Ridge CA, Sevehah cliff, Sonora pass, Tower Pk, White Mtns NV
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Fall Birds, 2018
The Wilson’s warblers have stuck around for quite a while. And, atop a bush on the other side of the house, we saw what we believe to be a Dickcissel, which would put it at the extreme western edge of … Continue reading
9/11. It’s Not Going Away …
As though we don’t have enough to worry about, what with the Mad King enthroned in the West Wing. Don’t we have, at the moment, quite enough on our plates, without being asked to think about 9/11? Followers of this … Continue reading
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Natural Happenings #5, Early Sept. 2018
Making apple juice! One of our star guides, Orlando Torres, gave us the use of his press Continue reading
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Natural Happenings #4, Summer’s End, 2018
The summer of little water has come to an end. Now, birds are migrating south and the apple harvest has begun. What else? Pray for snow … and vote Blue in November!! We must rid ourselves of this anti-environment administration!
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Tagged acorns, crabapples, merganser, New Mexico, Rio Grande, snow, vesper sparrow, wilson's warbler
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Natural Happenings, Summer 2018, #3
Our best customers at the feeders are the hummingbirds (duh!), the scrub jays and the immature evening grosbeaks. I also just had a surprise visit from the four Canyon wren chicks that have been around lately. Two of them were … Continue reading
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Tagged birds, Canyon wren, evening grosbeak, scrub jay
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Natural Happenings, Summer 2018, #2
“Beauty Happens”. That is a line from a great book on sexual selection, entitled “The Evolution Of Beauty”, by Richard O. Prum, Professor of Ornithology at Yale University. If you love studying Evolution, you’ll love this book.
