Tag Archives: birds

A Bay Area sunset…

On the first night at my mom’s house, I took a few pictures of the sunset from her balcony. And after I dropped the kid off the following morning, I had nothing to do for like eight days… but run … Continue reading

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Even more animal adventures… part 6…

See… animals and babies really do love me… that bird is dancing on my head! Feeding the lorikeets at the San Diego Wild Animal Park is fun. They are cute little birds, and sometimes you can get a whole group … Continue reading

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Even more animal adventures… part 5…

My daughter made friends with this little guy, who was still growing in his adult feathers… I called him Scruffy! A little girl who heard that thought it was the funniest thing ever. Feeding the lorikeets at the San Diego … Continue reading

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Even more animal adventures… part 4…

Whoops… I totally lied to you… by accident… I hinted in the last post in this series that the next post in this series would be a bunch of pictures of Mollie… my daughter… and I, feeding the lorikeets… (which … Continue reading

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Even more animal adventures… part 3…

Uh… that is not an attractive bird… No… please don’t hang your head in shame… I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings… But preening is only going to help so much… See, even the other birds looked at that spoonbill … Continue reading

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Even more animal adventures… part 2…

Well, I suppose I will start off with the birds again, and then try to do these in ascending order of excitement-generating potential… so to speak… Hey… didn’t we see that same bird at the zoo? But this wasn’t the zoo, it … Continue reading

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Even more animal adventures… part 1…

I took my younger daughter, Mollie, to the San Diego Wild Animal Park today… we went just to play around with the zoom lens. I have so far edited our 269 photos down to a much more reasonable 150 or … Continue reading

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ZOOmin’ around… part 9… for the birds…

Oh yeah… hummingbird in flight…

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ZOOmin’ around… part 8… for the birds…

Birds are not always easy to photograph… even in a zoo setting… and especially the little birds… because those guys move around almost as much as the crack squirrels that live inside my head… Inside the San Diego zoo, there … Continue reading

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ZOOmin’ around… part 7… for the birds…

Strangely, I saved a bunch of pictures of birds for the last parts of this series… I like to build to a crescendo… You would think that it would be hard to top the baby gorilla, or the mom and … Continue reading

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