This site is dedicated to wildlife and landscape photography.
This site is dedicated to wildlife and landscape photography.
I’ve been looking for a western bluebird to photograph for some time. It hasn’t been easy. First, they are hard to find. Second, they aren’t easy to get a lens on them. They don’t sit still for more than a few seconds, if that. Third, it’s hard to get a clean background. This guy accommodated me recently at Point Reyes. Thank you my friend.
This resident coyote was looking for something to eat when it spotted yet another Point Reyes tourist. The Seashore is a good place to spot coyotes, but they exist throughout Marin County, provided there is good habitat for them.
I went out to Point Reyes for a while today. I saw two bobcats and a coyote, not to mention the more common things like elk, deer, various hawks, a burrowing owl, and other birds. When I first saw this bobcat it was lying down in the grass. I wasn’t sure if it was a bobcat or a tabby cat. One of our two tabby cats has a face that looks just like a bobcat’s face and there are plenty of farm cats in the Seashore. Anyway, as you can see from the photo, it was definitely a bobcat. Point Reyes is a good place to spot bobcats, but they exist in suitable habitat throughout Marin County.
Here is another photo from our garden. I decided to do a poster series of birds like I did last summer of Yellowstone wildlife. The Yellowstone posters are available at The Paradise Gallery in Gardiner, Montana. The bird posters are now available at Wild Birds Unlimited, Novato, California. I had never been in a Wild Birds Unlimited store before the Novato store opened this past summer. It is very nice and the people are very knowledgeable. If you’re interested in attracting and feeding wild birds and there is a Wild Birds Unlimited store near you, then you probably already know how good they are. But, if you have one nearby and haven’t checked it out, you should.
I did some more photographing in our garden recently. In exchange for a little seed, this white-crowned sparrow agreed to pose. I haven’t seen the jackrabbit who used to run around the garden when I was shooting there a couple of months ago. I hope he is OK.
This mourning dove let me get quite close. The coloring of these birds, with their black eyes, teal orbital rings and tans and grays of their bodies, is subtle, but beautiful.
This acorn woodpecker and its mate nested in this tree cavity next to my friend Jeff’s garage in Inverness this past spring. Jeff kept an eye on the nest, but never saw any young. That’s the way it goes sometimes.
They are colorful birds. Their habit of storing acorn nuts in the holes they create in trees, fences and anything else made of wood can make them unpopular when they decide to store their nuts in the wood siding of a house.
