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More shore birds, for sure… (or): Let’s see some sea birds???

I still have some pictures left from my work trip down to Mission Bay in San Diego. I know, I live in San Diego, but I had to drive down to the beach to do some work… Look, it doesn’t … Continue reading

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Mine! mine! mine! mine!… (or); Nature in the wild is seldom mild, as my mother always says… part 2…

The struggle over the loaf of bread has become a tussle… It has passed the scrap phase and is building towards being a fracas… or maybe even a fray… The scrimmage has become a scrum… The scuffle is now a … Continue reading

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Mine! mine! mine! mine!… (or); Nature in the wild is seldom mild, as my mother always says… part 1…

A seagull finds the mother lode by Mission Bay in San Diego… an loaf of bread in a plastic bag. A crow stops to watch, and maybe see if he can get in on the action. The seagull get the … Continue reading

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Birds… I am going to be doing some posts about birds… I have pictures… so, uh, here we go…

I took my good camera and the telephoto lens down to Mission Beach in San Diego when I had some work to do down there. Here are some much better pictures of that osprey than the ones I took with … Continue reading

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Random cell phone photos; (or): My second double rainbow in two weeks, a tumbleweed on a beach, my dog ate my f*&%$#g books, a really cold car, a cool bird, and an upside down cat…

Just clearing a few photos off my phone from the last few days of my crazy life. That is the second double rainbow I have seen within two weeks. What are the odds of that? A tumbleweed on the beach … Continue reading

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Well, I’m sorry if you spent all morning digging your car out of a snowbank, but this is what San Diego looks like right now…

I am also sorry about the quality of these photos, I took them with my phone. That is Mission Bay. That is Mission Beach. Bay side… Beach side… Bay… Beach… with lifeguards still on duty… Nobody had to dig their … Continue reading

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A crow on a dead tree branch, and a battle in the sky…

Crow on a dead tree branch… that should be the name of a band, or a song, or an epic poem. Have you ever seen crows or jays swooping at a hawk to drive it away? Hawks are fearsome on … Continue reading

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A city by the bay, and a daughter by the bay, and some dogs by the bay, and some birds in the bay… part 1…

My younger daughter, Mollie, and I went down to that dog park by the bay yesterday. You know I do that when I miss my dogs back in San Diego. I cheat on them with other dogs. It was a … Continue reading

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Some birds, and me and a dog…

A Golden Crowned Sparrow. I have a few pictures of them. I say ‘them’… these were taken over two days, and I assume it isn’t all the same bird. But I could be wrong. But that is a pretty good … Continue reading

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Scrub Jay…

Some random pictures of a Scrub Jay, taken in my mom’s garden in the San Francisco Bay Area. I mean, these probably aren’t all the same Scrub Jay. There are more than one visiting the feeder. I have seen at … Continue reading

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