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Los Angeles Area

Monday, December 10th, 2007

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Spent close to two weeks in the Los Angeles area. First in Riverside, at Rancho Jurupa County Park, then the KOA in Pomona. At Rancho Jurupa, the two pairs of ducks that were there before are still doing well. Also, in their small fishing pond, there were some visiting white pelicans, cormorants and a blue heron.

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There is no shallow area in the pond for the blue heron to wade in. It kept watching the cormorants catch fish and wanted in the water, but it was too deep.

I stayed a few days more than I had to in Pomona waiting for mail that had been forwarded to me. Finally had to give up on it and head down to San Diego. At least I payed all my bills online, so there should not be any outstanding bills.

Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico, continued

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

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One cormorant and lots of turtles.

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Lots of cormorants and one turtle.

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Think this is a northern harrier. There are two of them that fly over the marsh area.

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Western grebe, the one on top with a fish. They can dive and stay under a long time, just like the cormorants. They go under water and you don’t know where they will surface. Their black and white markings give the illusion of their having a triangular shaped head.

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The cyclic clearing, burning, and flooding of fields.

Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

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Moved a little south, to Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge.

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Cormorants and turtle.

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Black birds swarming, probably to get some type of grain on the ground.

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Mule deer.

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Just got the tail end of this wet coyote. It looks a lot healthier than the coyotes I used to see in Southern California.

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Cape Blanco State Park, Oregon

Friday, July 27th, 2007

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Cape Blanco has to be my favorite park (so far). My camp was amongst trees with trails leading from it to the beach one way and to the lighthouse the other way. You could sit in either area and watch whales spouting in the distance. It was often cold and windy, especially by the lighthouse, but a windbreaker took care of that. One young girl on getting out of the family car at the lighthouse said, “Geeze, is this Alaska?”

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Able to walk Jake in the rain on this trail leading to the lighthouse without hardly getting wet.

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This trail ran along the Sixes River where it meets the ocean.

As an aside, the owners of the land on the other side of the river (where the trees are) are threatening to sell the land to condo developers.

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This otter came up to Jake and I while we were walking the Sixes trail shown above. He was really curious about us. Not sure if he is a sea or river otter. Seemed very dog like.

cormorants

Here are some cormorants. When I first saw them in this position, thought they were young birds wanting the wind to carry them up in the air. Later read their feathers get saturated and need to be dried out.