Sunset Foiling

 

Owl finds out what we do to Turkeys today!

Then gives me a look that chills me to this very day!

Fun Spreckels Boats

Some fun RC boats at Spreckels Lake this weekend.

Bonus African Queen with mini Katharine Hepburn!

I guess there is also a mini Bogart but Katharine is the best! They were pretty great together in the African Queen.

I love the smoke on the Intrepid and hope to see the African Queen in action one weekend. Fingers crossed it has smoke too.

 

Okay Great Egret Shot

I enjoyed the pose and lighting of this great egret standing in a mostly shady spot.
 

Quick and dirty Jupiter shot through the kitchen window

 I looked out the kitchen window and saw Jupiter shining super bright. Put my camera and 500mm lens on a tripod and ran exactly 2 short captures. A 1min capture exposed for Jupiter and a 30sec capture exposed for the moons.

I think I spent 5 minutes total setting up and capturing the images. Then maybe another 60min to process and stack the movies into the still.

Pretty amazing how easy it can be to capture an okay image of Jupiter and it's moons.

At some point soon I need put a little more effort into it and go outside with my good telescope and get a higher res image.

Staying Cozy in a Foot Print

There are a lot of Snowy plover's at Ocean Beach now.

They always look so cute and cuddly when they are curled up in the foot print holes along the beach.

Who's There?

I spotted a bunch of old owl pellets and bones on the ground right under a hole in a tree about a month ago. They all looked old and I never saw anything in the whole.

Last week I walked by and noticed a lot of new looking pellets and step back a bit and saw the top of a barn owls head!

It is on my normal walk so I look into the whole from a nearby hill and have managed to catch the barn owl looking back a few times. When it notices me it usually ducks down to where I can only see the top of it's head from the hill.

I think it may be one of the owls I have seen in other areas and other people have seen flying around in that same area.

Fingers crossed for some little ones during the mating season.

 

Who needs two good eyes?!

She looks tough and I wouldn't mess with her.

Poor mouse but glad she doesn't seem to have any trouble getting a meal.

Peaking out of the grass on top of the kill.