You’ll hear Soras more often than you’ll see them. But once in a while you’ll be lucky enough to experience both — when the characteristic Sora call precedes a visual of the Sora wading through the shallows. Soras are in the rail family, not rare, even if they are elusive. They share a lineage with…
Archives for September 2009
Secret Digs of the Great Horned Owl
Photos of a Great Horned Owl perched in Strawberry Canyon in Berkeley.
Stick People v. Mountain Lion
My mate posted his own photo of this sign online and received the following comment: “Please feed the Mountain Lion your child as sacrifice.” These panels do seem to promote some questionable strategies . . . even if the text advocates sensible human-lion interaction. Stick figures are, after all, internationally fluid symbols. In the absence…
Wingtip Vortices
A different type of wing than the one normally featured here. I shot this on a mysteriously dense, dark and humid evening. I haven’t yet checked the weather history. I thought it might be residual from Hurricane Jimena, the category-4 hurricane that hit Baja earlier this month. I had to shoot at higher ISOs than my…