Since Black-tailed Bucks lose their antlers beginning in late December and through the winter, they need to regrow them in the spring. Adrian Adams got a very nice photo showing the new growth.
The antlers are covered in a membrane called velvet. The velvet nourishes the growing bones underneath it. I've read that if you could touch it, you would find it's hot!
Thanks to Adrian for allowing me to share his photo with you here.
It's been a lovely spring day today with temps in the mid sixties.
Two Coyotes have been spotted, but only one was photographed. Looks like a very healthy Coyote is living lightly on the land at TSR. Here is Mike Petrich's photo.
Adrian Adams saw perhaps the same Coyote outside his home.
We don't see Coyotes too often, but they do wander through now and then.There are lots of gophers and other underground critters in Mendonoma Coast meadows.
Thanks to Mike and Adrian for allowing me to share their photos with you here.
The rain has left us until the middle of next week. The seven-day total of rain at Rick's and my place in Anchor Bay is 8.91 inches. 50.34 season to date. We are having an excellent rainy season. Today is cool with some clouds interspersed by brilliant sunshine. The Gualala River is running strong and muddy! Here's a photo I took this morning behind Trink's.
Adrian Adams noticed this live Great Blue Heron standing on a roof at The Sea Ranch. But a metal GBH weather vane would be pretty nice!
Great Blue Herons will occasionally get on a roof to search for prey and/or for protection from predators.
Thanks to Adrian for allowing me to share his photo with you here.
It was quite cold (for us here on the coast - I know it's very, very cold in other parts) this morning, 37 degrees. But it's sunny and calm this afternoon. We've gone three weeks without any rain as of today. Rain is in the forecast for later next week. Hope so!
That would be the Brush Rabbit, Sylvilagus bachmani, who Adrian Adams recently photographed. They are a species of Cottontail Rabbits and found on the West Coast of North America.
Fun Fact: Brush Rabbits thump their back feet when startled.
Thanks to Adrian for allowing me to share his photo with you here.
It's sunny and breezy today, temps in the mid 70's.
Adrian Adams photographed this beautiful Anise Swallowtail Butterfly feeding on marigolds in his The Sea Ranch garden - a vision of loveliness.
Monarchs continue to arrive on coast where they feed before migrating southward. Rozanne Rapozo recently photographed one of these magnificent butterflies.
Thanks to Adrian and Rozanne for allowing me to share their photos with you here.
We are having another warm autumn day, and the Pacific Ocean is roaring. On my drive down to the radio station, KGUA, in Gualala this morning for my monthly Sightings talk with host Peggy Berryhill, ocean mist was spilling across the highway. On the east side, the morning sun created multiple sunbeams through the trees. The combination was amazing to see.