California Wildlife

  Male American Kestrel CCC foothills East of Vasco Rd                                                                                               CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE JANUARY 2025          Happy Holidays! Hope all is well. Updating the local wildlife photographs with new recent looks. As foggy days have been the average last month with much needed rainfall occasionally, there were a few times I had to travel up above the fog to witness the sunshine. This is a fairly easy process in the bay area as foothills and taller peaks are never too far away and usually rise above the layer. My routes were to mostly the Alameda foothills, Morgan Territory, Marsh Creek and areas around Del Valle and Los Vaqueros reservoi...

                                    CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE DECEMBER 2024  Flying over the Eastern CC County hills near the edge of the Central Valley, a young golden eagle.         Cool, rainy weather welcome! After two strong above average rainfall years in a row. We only have to stay average for a while. Hopefully the storms mellow out to some degree, keeping flooding and landslides to a minimum.       Sharing some local views of the Pacific flyway including the Central Valley in San Joaquin and Sacramento Counties along with Contra Costa and Alameda. All photographs taken in these areas, including a couple in the past taken in the foothills, dated in the individual text. Our hills and meadows are turning green after months of hot and dry conditions. It is a great time of year. Migratory species are on the move and setting up interesting sightings in our bea...

  Recent Juvenile Red Tail hawk in Eastern CC County                                                                            CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE NOVEMBER 2024                                                       Hopefully, last of the dry season                             Updated recent wildlife photographs, and two older looks of local wildlife. check text from individual photos for more information. Thanks everyone for your interest.      It is voting time, consider the future of wildlife, our planet and climate change while making your decisions please... Older re ed...

                                                   CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE OCTOBER 2024 Black Tail Buck Alameda Foothills                                                                       “The Challengers”   Black tail season is upon us. Sharing some of the male local challengers competing for females in the Alameda County foothills… My canine partner Rebel and I had a couple of close calls chasing them, but overall, gathered some close-up views of these incredible beasts. Added other photos of species commonly seen th...

                Recent Allen's hummingbird                                         CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE SEPTEMBER 2024    Barn owls at our home have finished their nesting and have left area after approximately forty-three days of living here. I believe they had a very successful fledging, though I left them alone knowing later I would know the exact results when I perform fall cleaning of the barn owl box. (I will report) This was a good residential test in my opinion of having the owls breed here in the neighborhood. Plenty of stress as the neighbors paid to have their yard cleared with chain saws, blowers, many employees with loud voices, all within about twenty feet and further from the box during early daylight hours. Many nights I had to take my pup out front for late night rest room visits. As a family, we gave them their space for...