When I saw this beauty, one of many, I knew it had to hit my blog. It is simply a gorgeous specimen.
They’re baaaack!
After being gone for nearly 10 years, we now have a female coyote and her pups at the Conservancy’s flagship preserve, the BKS tract. What is amazing is that this is a very large animal, one of the largest specimens I’ve seen in the Natomas Basin. My g …
Out on bale
Conservancy field personnel are seeing a lot of Swainson’s Hawk activity already this year. On a Conservancy alfalfa field in the North Basin Reserve Area, we’ve photo’d a number of “dark morphs” (see photo of a single Swainson’s Hawk with this post). …
Published and not perished
Attached with this post is notification and reference to an article brief published in Herpetological Review 44(1), 2013 regarding movement of a Giant Garter Snake in the Natomas Basin (see “Thamnophis Gigas (Giant Gartersnake) Movement”). What is note …
Counting crows (and other birds)
It’s always a pleasure to have a group of Audubon Society folks help the Conservancy with bird counts. This year, the group was smaller than normal, but the weather conditions were not conducive to a pleasant outing for birders. The issue was the wind. …
November surprise
Rarely do we see Giant Garter Snakes this time of year. “Hibernating” is the word usually used to describe them these days. But it is in the upper 70s today temperature-wise, and surprise of all surprises, today I saw a beautiful specimen of this NBHCP …