Don't know if I've mentioned it here yet, or not, but, in addition to working at the main site of the Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue, I've been doing one shift a week at the nearby Songbird Hospital, which is affiliated with the SCWR, but located at a different site (at the home of the woman who runs it and does most of the work ( Read more... )

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Since I am waaaaay behind on posting 365 photos, I'm going to take a few shortcuts, and post some of them together. Days 79, 80 and 81 all go together anyway - photos of recent visitors to our yard. I started putting out millet and cracked corn for the quail, and they seem to appreciate it, judging by how often they've been in the yard lately. Oh, ( Read more... )

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Just about every day, I see one of our local ground squirrels climb up on my back fence, and sit there, perched (probably on look-out duty while the others forage for food). I just looked outside ( Read more... )

This past week, my son and I participated in the First Annual Blogger BioBlitz. The idea is to choose a small but convenient natural area, and survey all the organisms you can find there during a one-week period: April 21 through 29, in honor of National Wildlife Week. I decided that Connor and I would survey our back patio plus the open space ( Read more... )

The data recovery place was able to recover most of the photos off my microdrive that died, so YAY, I can finally post an entry about our road trip up to Washington. Instead of linking all the photos here, though, I created a set of photos at Flickr (they're public, so you don't have to be a member to view them. At least I think that's how it works ( Read more... )

Hey, heathwitch, have you seen this? I'm sure there are other f-listers who will also be interested:

A cool website where you can explore a life-sized image of a whale