Incubation

 

Robin Incubating Eggs, Elk Glen Lake

Like the robin, I've been incubating embryonic ideas toward finding a new direction for my nature photography. I'd like to get away from using the compact camera so much, and I've also been feeling like the direction of the blog during the last couple of years has about run its course. 

Windrows and Spindrift, Yesterday at Ocean Beach

Slightly Ruffled Heron, South Lake

The fishing must not have been very good. The heron made a few snaps at passing dragonflies but never actually caught one.

I'll never forget being swarmed by ants when I was around five years old, so even these tiny ones swarming around a crack in the sidewalk in Golden Gate Park still make me just a little nervous. I wondered if the warm weather brought out such an unusually large number of them today.

I was checking out a group of crows messing around some logs at North Lake when I noticed a great blue heron hunting nearby. A screeching red-shouldered hawk landed nearby as I waited for the heron to make a strike.

And then a hummingbird dropped by to gather nectar from some ruby-red flowers.

Although I stuck around for half an hour, the heron never did make a strike.

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