Spotted on the beaches near Trinidad, CA and again in Bothin Marsh Preserve in Mill Valley, CA here are a couple photos of the aptly named Long-billed Curlew.
Category: California
I wish I had been better able to capture JTree at night – I made a couple attempts but felt I was not up to the challenge…
Ok – so sea otters groom their fur a lot… and with good reason. That fur is what keeps them warm in some pretty chilly water. But, if you watch them long enough and take enough photos at just the right times, it makes for…
Ok – let’s get something out of the way first here… Muir Woods is a smallish “national monument” (I’m still not sure what differentiates a national park versus a national monument versus a national reserve versus any of the other designations I’ve run into) just…
Alright – it might have been a bit remiss of me to not share photos of Joshua Trees earlier in my posts from Joshua Tree National Park… but better late than never, eh?
I’ve shared some elk photos from Rocky Mountain National Park… this herd of elk near Redwoods National Park (not technically inside the park boundary, but close enough) was pretty large, but the bull elk didn’t have the same impressive antlers, but still beautiful animals. Oh…
Taken during a short stop-over in Monterey, CA… this Black Oystercatcher certainly looked like it had plenty of choices and didn’t have to do much “catching”…
My visit to Mojave was on a somewhat chilly and overcast day in March of 2022, so I feel like I missed out on some of more typical features of Mojave, but this stacked horizon of shades of blue was a nice treat. Reminded me…
Ok – as today’s post title indicates, I’m going to make this “Video Week” and get some of the videos I’ve been working on (or rather not working on for a long time) finished and shared. I might even sneak in an extra post or…
One of many “new-to-me” bird species I managed to photograph when I visited Arcata Marshes during my stay in Arcata. I originally went to the area to visit Redwood National Park, but the marshes were a nice bonus. There will be plenty more posts of…
While in California I had a couple opportunities to photograph sea otters. They’re just so fun to watch…
I found a couple of these Western Zebra-Tailed Lizards (Callisaurus draconoides rhodostictus) during various hikes in Joshua Tree National Park.
After setting up camp one evening I went wandering about to see what I might be able to find. Just as I was returning to camp, I caught some movement out of the corner of my eye. As I approached, I couldn’t see anything –…
I figured I might as well finish out this week’s set of posts with another unexpected critter from Joshua Tree, and in keeping with the previous posts, this one is a hummingbird moth – a White-lined Sphinx Moth to be precise.
Who would have expected that I’d find multiple hummingbirds in the desert? And if the last post’s species is indeed an Anna’s Hummingbird, this makes for two different species as there is zero doubt that today’s species is definitely a Costa’s Hummingbird. I found this…