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| Black-throated Gray Warbler, Forest Hill |
When I first saw it foraging among the leaves of a street tree I was excited because I thought it might be a mountain chickadee. When I got a better look and saw that it was a GBGB bird, I prayed ISO 800 would be enough to get a sharp image of it. Out of the eight frames I was able to get before it flew into someone's back yard, only the one above was decent. However, I'm not above posting "indecent" shots too, so there's one more shot below.
The fog finally rolled back in last night. I could hear the trees dripping outside. Note the wet feathers on the bird above, after foraging among wet leaves.
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| Ripening Figs |
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| UPDATE (12/4/24): The figs are finally becoming ripe. |
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| UPDATE (12/11/24): Most of the leaves have fallen from the tree, making the figs easier to spot. Several figs were on the ground, but I picked one from the tree to take home. It looked great, but the flavor was a bit bland for my taste. Fig trees always remind me of a friend and fellow photographer from Santa Barbara whose front-yard fig tree led him into his livelihood, providing "goob" to many of the freestyle disc players who were his friends.... |
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| Haunted Fire Alarm |
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| Haunted Forest |
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| I'd tried and failed to get a shot of a hermit thrush during my walk through Golden Gate Heights Park, but I saw one bathing in our back yard when I got home. A smaller junco was perched nearby, waiting for the hermit to finish. |
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| The World's Most Laid-back Bison |
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| Bathing Finches |
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| The Giant Camera was open during those sunny days, but I don't think it got much action even with the warm weather. Makes me wonder how long it will remain in this spot. |
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| Pelicans outnumbered surfers about a thousand-to-one today.... |
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