Tour Time.

Well that's my world as it was this morning, I have more Christmas shopping to finish, I better get with it. I don't know how Santa did it before Amazon came around.

Sea Lion Salmon Fishing

Just off of Dutch Slough the levee has been breached filling a recently contoured 1800 acres into a wildlife preserve.

I Lost 4500 pictures; for a while.

Any how this exercise was well worth it I cleared a ton of storage and the photo editors are working good now. Next is to take on Bridge and Photoshop the goal is to set it up for all of the data to be saved on an external drive.

The Light Just Isn’t Good.

Taking 300 keeper photographs translates into a considerable amount of time, luckily they take 5 minutes each. But after editing them the time comes to eliminate some, that may take 10 minutes per frame but it's a good problem to have.

Watching them Watch me.

During fire season they most likely head for a safe rookery a distance from their normal habitat. However the fog may be due only to not being able to see far enough to fly around.

The Fog Has Lifted.

Tomorrows a new day that looks like it will be clear. Another bit of rain is predicted arriving this Friday in a minimal amount. The important part is how much snow will fall on the Sierra Nevadas, the snow pack is what makes the difference in our water supply next Summer. We won't be out of this rough by a long shot,

Cormorants

Some fly close to the water surface at the same speed they fly far overhead, they only have two speeds stopped and fast. When they fly near the surface it's usually because they are executing a short flight of a few hundred yards. Generally when they are high overhead they are heading far down the river disappearing around one of the nearby bends. They remind me of Taxi Cabs on a busy downtown street continuously in motion without a concern in the world.

Sparrows

It's best to feed them under a nearby tree as it guards them from being attacked from overhead as well as being shielded from the side the tree is on. Watching one direction improves their chance of survival if a predator makes an attempt.

Food Fight.

less they were there taking advantage of the seed I tossed out two days ago.

Time to Create a Calendar

I have no desire to publish anything for sale, I've done that and I don't like it one bit; I can no longer handle stress. But if I were to be asked or create a Calendar I would chose a theme a bit more relevant to the Culture of the Island.