Emma Prusch Farm Park

On Saturday D. and I visited Emma Prusch Farm Park. Here are some of the pics I took, including chickens, guinea fowl, ducks, geese, plus some exotic birds, as well as other non-avian things too.

It's a farm.  There are chickens.


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Baylands Marsh

On Saturday D. and I took a brief walk around the wetland marsh section of the Baylands in Palo Alto.  For different reasons both D. and I have trouble walking, and the Baylands has flat trails, plus it's close by.  The marsh was as dry as we've ever seen it, with large expanses of dried, cracked mud where open water used to be.  I ( Read more... )

Palo Alto Baylands

A couple of weeks ago D. and I went to the Baylands Nature Preserve in Palo Alto, and I took some pics.

Walking past the preserve's interpretive center, almost immediately we see a ring-necked pheasant across the slough, among the abundant blossoming wild mustard.


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Stevens Creek Trail, 10-5-08, Crittenden to tidal wetlands

A couple of Sundays ago D. and I spent a couple of hours moseying along the Stevens Creek Trail, between Crittenden Ave and the marshes at the edge of the Bay. D. took these pics.

Coyote bush seeds go flying away on the breeze.


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