Birds
My entry for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week.
So many questions…
I’m not sure why a fire extinguisher was floating in Lake Natoma or how it got there; I do know it made me do a double take and go back to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating. I also hope that someone retrieved it and disposed of it properly.
Life on the water
Looking up
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Point Your Camera Upwards.
An incidental menagerie
Some recent animal shots from hiking at lakes Folsom and Natoma, as well as Denio’s weekly petting zoo.
The letter “K”
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Needs to have the letter “K” anywhere in the word. I had already made up a list of potential words to use in my entry this week, but this morning on my walk I saw so many birds with “K” in their names I had to go in that direction […]
Gold dredger history
Back in the middle of last November I published a post about gold dredgers in Yuba County — but it wasn’t too many decades past that we had dredgers operating on the lower American River, including the area of what is now Lake Natoma. Along the river’s course, anywhere you find heaping piles of rounded cobble laid out in long […]
Northern Mockingbird
Northern Mockingbirds sing all through the day, and often into the night. Most nocturnal singers are unmated males, which sing more than mated males during the day, too. Nighttime singing is more common during the full moon — All About Birds
From the south bank
A few more shots from the First Day Hike at Lake Natoma this year.