Winter’s Song Dogs: Eastern Coyotes! — Oakland County Blog

WILDER SIDE OF OAKLAND COUNTY Aldo Leopold wrote: “There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.” I consider myself an unabashed member of the latter group. Coyotes certainly represent “wild things,” but they are not restricted to rural sections of our county. They are extremely adaptable creatures, and it’s perfectly…Winter’s Song …

Black-tailed Prairie Dog — Sonoran Images

You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. There was a time when vast expanses of North America’s western plains were home to millions of prairie dogs. These rodents lived communally in gigantic “towns,” complex networks of burrows that sometimes covered hundreds of square miles. […]Black-tailed …

California moving key stretch of Hwy 1 inland along crumbling Sonoma coast for ‘managed retreat’ — KTLA

A few winding turns past Bodega Bay, along foggy bluffs and coastal prairie, relentless waves pound a crumbling stretch of coastline in dire need of saving. Here at Gleason Beach, once referred to as Malibu North, the beach gets drowned during high tide. Bits of concrete and rebar are all that remain of 11 clifftop…California moving …

New Box….New Owl — Owl Oasis Trail

Site 1 It has been 2 years since a screech owl was seen on this site, and that was pretty much just a drive by(once in a motion capture cam at night in the box, and once roosting in tree near by.) the last sustained activity was April 2015. So it was nice to see […]New …

Synchronized Goose Yoga — Mike Powell

Thanks to Tchaikovsky, swans seem to have cornered the market for bird ballet, so some local Canada Geese (Branta canadensis) decided to organize themselves for synchronized yoga competitions instead. At a recent practice that I observed at a small suburban pond, they were having some issues in coordinating their left single-legged pose—one of them had […]Synchronized …