by Beverly G. | Jul 13, 2016 | Discover Trail Life
These four photographs of Western tiger swallowtail butterflies were taken in a period of a few seconds. The butterfly was enjoying the flower, fluttered its wings, and flew away. I especially like the third photo because it almost looks like there are two...
by Beverly G. | Jul 12, 2016 | Discover Trail Life
We spotted this wooly bear caterpillar toward the end of our July 11,2016 hike at the Pismo Preserve. The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History has published an interesting article about these “bears.”
by Beverly G. | Jun 22, 2016 | News and Views
These are gray whales, probably a mother and calf, headed north. I took the photo from a cliff in Big Sur. MK
by Beverly G. | Jun 22, 2016 | News and Views
California condor photos taken by Michael Klatt during a March 2016 trip up the coast to San Simeon. In 2013 nine condors released in central California died. Lead toxicosis, when it could be determined, was the cause of the deaths. During that same year,...
by Beverly G. | Jun 22, 2016 | News and Views
February 9, 2016 post from Mike and Ruby: This evening we watched cedar waxwings catching and eating insects in flight. They usually eat fruit, but sometimes they will eat insects. There must have been about fifty of them in the small oak trees in front of...
