California Wildlife

Recent Gulf Frutilluary                                            CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE SEPTEMBER 2025      Updating local wildlife photos with a mixture of some interesting encounters from the past, and new encounters, including a special black tail fawn in Alameda County above Del Valle reservoir. This last month I experienced some setbacks and inability to get out in the field for a couple of weeks, so I apologize for possible views seen previously.   My earlier blogsite has disappeared completely. The California site started in early 2024, and contains a couple of guides for raptors and mammals with pictures from the past. Though the earlier site is lost forever, the photographs are not. I have made an effort to keep every photograph I have ever taken on...

                                                 CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE AUGUST 2025  Allens hummingbird Oakley Early in Eastern CC County perhaps the cooler weather this year       Hope all is well! Sharing some recent photographs and good news in regards to local Coyote populations. The last couple of years I have noticed a significant reduction of coyote numbers in the open plain’s areas of Contra Costa County and surrounding areas. I have traveled these areas consistently for many years, and I am impressed with recent observations.                There has been a change this year. Pups a plenty, I ‘d say. And confirmed also from a acquaintance I’ve known for years who works five days a week at a local watershed park. He starts early in the morning, and stays late in the afternoon or ...