Juvenile red tail hawk The stare While walking my dog Chuck in the Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary yesterday afternoon around 4, we nearly walked smack into this juvenile red tail hawk, which appeared to have a broken wing. It was perched on a fallen branch, staring at first me, then Chuck but not moving […]
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Bigfoot Daze
We got a note today from our friend Richard at the Humboldt County Convention and Visitors Bureau : If yer looking for something to blog today, I wanted to share something that might be fun, given that this weekend is Bigfoot Days and that 2008 is the so-called Year of the Bigfoot (he turns 50 […]
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Loaded for bear
We like to kill bears in Humboldt County. The Daily Triplicate tells us that Humboldt ranks fifth among California counties for bear kills (117 were 86’d by hunters last year), while noting that its own county — Del Norte — has felt a diminishing appetite for bear over the years (just 29 killed last year, down […]
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Condor big time
Used to be, California condors sailed the western skies from Baja to Canada. Now just 148 hunker down in captivity and another 136 exist tenuously in the wild — 63 of them in California, mostly in Southern California although some live up around Hollister at Pinnacles National Monument. But someday we may see the […]