Saturday, June 29, 2013

Saturn

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Saturn - Canon 60Da, 5x zoom, 30sec VGA movie at 60fps My first attempt at imaging Saturn since the rings reappeared.  The seeing was no...
Friday, June 28, 2013

Turkey Vulture on Cell Repeater

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I was surprised this morning to find a turkey vulture perched on our cell phone repeater antenna.  Normally, it is a mockingbird that stakes...
Sunday, June 16, 2013

Wilderness Systems Commander 140

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Our latest recreation toys are a pair of Wilderness Systems Commander 140 kayaks.  They are actually a hybrid canoe/kayak form and are mostl...
Sunday, June 9, 2013

Cardinal Nest in Roses

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I have been surprised several times by a female cardinal flush out from one of our rosebushes in the driveway.  I went and took a careful p...
Sunday, May 26, 2013

Venus, Jupiter, Mercury in Conjunction

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This evening, the planets Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury were in conjunction following the setting sun.  The three planets formed an almost per...
Monday, May 20, 2013

White Tail Fawn Season

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It "fawning" season again.  Our neighborhood has a large suburban population of whitetail deer.  For the third year in a row, fawn...
Monday, May 13, 2013

Black Vulture

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Along the San Gabriel River , near my home we have quite a number of both black and turkey vultures that roost in the evening in a few speci...
Saturday, May 4, 2013

Black Swallowtail Caterpillar on Dill

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We regularly plant parsley in the backyard to feed the caterpillars of the Black Swallowtail Butterfly,   Papilio Polyxenes . This year we p...
Monday, April 29, 2013

Hummingbird Tongues

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This weekend, I was stalking the hummingbird feeder again.  The Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds were once again replaced by the Black-Chinned Hu...
Saturday, April 27, 2013

Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds

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We are right on the edge of the summer breading grounds of the Ruby-Throated Hummingbird .  I got a shot of both a female and a male.  The t...