This site is dedicated to wildlife and landscape photography.
This site is dedicated to wildlife and landscape photography.
I photographed this coyote yesterday just before the sun set I spotted it about fifteen or twenty minutes before sunset and stayed with it until the sun actually set. It’s my favorite time to photograph wildlife, and I’m sure I’m not alone in that. I assume the light is just ad good at sunrise, but it’s a heck of a lot harder spotting anything to photograph in the dark.
There is a lot of algae blooming in this newly-created lagoon at Drakes Beach. I hope the Park Service removes the algae before it leads to eutrophication of what is otherwise a benefit to the seashore.
I photographed this bobcat as it was slowly walking away from my vehicle. It was sunset and shooting conditions were borderline. Canon 800mm f/5.6 lens + 1.4 TC, 1/200 sec., at f/8, 6400 ISO.
I was out at Point Reyes National Seashore last week and photographed this great blue heron. It was fishing in what is a new lagoon next to the parking lot at Drakes Beach. I understand it was developed a couple of years ago as mitigation for the widening of Sir Francis Drake Boulevard through East Schooner Creek, which is one of the few anadromous streams in the Seashore. A lagoon may have existed here long ago. It sits at the bottom of a drainage with a dairy farm, C Ranch, at the top of the drainage. The constituents of cow manure include nutrients, such as nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, which cause algal blooms when they get into watercourses. The water might also contain E coli. Unless something is done about the manure in the upper drainage, the whole lagoon will probably be filled with algae in another year or two. This heron looked like it was having trouble just wading around in the lagoon. This ranching shouldn’t be happening on Park Service-owned land in a national park.
The Rut Is On at Point Reyes. This 7-point bull is bugling to let everyone know he’s in charge, at least until someone bigger comes along and drives him away.
Photo of a bobcat walking a ridgeline. It had just caught and eaten a gopher.
I photographed this bobcat at Point Reyes a few days ago at sunset. The ranch area has greened up which makes for a better background than is the case in summer and fall when the non-native grasses are all brown and dead.
