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| Anna's Hummingbird, Mallard Lake |
It was four degrees warmer than yesterday when I set out on foot this morning, and I was glad for it, even though it was still fairly brisk. Even better was feeling the sun's warmth, seemingly for the first time in days, when the sky broke out in blue later on. I guess there's rain in the forecast for tonight (I'll believe it when I see it), but today was kind of a glorious fall day (yes, it's still fall until Sunday).
Have you ever tried to read The Gulag Archipeligo by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn? I got a third of the way into Volume 1 of 3 when I could no longer take the relentless "man's inhumanity to man" theme. It's truly mind-boggling and heart-rending to read what a deranged leader can do to a country's own citizens. I went back to reading Viruses: The Invisible Enemy with a sense of relief.
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| I noticed a few of these yellow fieldcaps (Bolbitius titubans) in the grass today in Golden Gate Park and figured they must have come up up after being watered by sprinklers since it hasn't rained in so long. |
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| Red-shouldered Hawk |
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| I was watching a great blue heron when this common yellowthroat briefly appeared from a thicket on the edge of Mallard Lake. |
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| I'd never seen a heron in this spot right next to the trail behind Mallard Lake before, and I know there are some huge carp that swim close to shore here, so I stopped to see if the heron would try to catch one. |
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| I watched for close to half an hour before the heron finally struck at something, and whatever it was must have been very small. It was already down the hatch when I snapped this shot. |
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| A few birds were enjoying a bath in the little creek at the east end of Mallard Lake. |
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| The built-in flash on the FZ-80D will only fire a couple of times before it needs to take a siesta and recharge. Your subject will of course do many photogenic things during this siesta (and also fly away), while you gape in frustration. |
Bathers at Mallard Lake
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| Some Townsend's warblers were also bathing in the shallows on the edge of Elk Glen Lake. |
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| Townsend's Warbler, Elk Glen Lake |
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| A yellow-rumped warbler gives me "the look" from the cattails at Elk Glen Lake. |
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| Autumnal Reflections on Elk Glen Lake |
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| Steller's Jay Nabs a Bee |
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| Posing in a Spot of Sun |
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| Fallen Plum Leaves on Sidewalk, 16th Avenue |
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| Lots of pelicans on the farthest-out of the Seal Rocks today. |
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