During December of last year, I wrote several posts about the Adelaide Port River dolphins featuring amazing photos and information from Paul and Debbie Huxtable, a pair of fabulous wildlife photographers who live in Adelaide, South Australia and post many great photos on their Adelaide Port River dolphins website. This week I received an email… [read more]
House finch in the house
Last spring, I was working at my computer and heard the strangest noise, it was a rapid thunk, thunk, thunk coming from the back porch area. Baffled, I tiptoed to the back of our apartment and looked out and there was a tiny bird having a field day ripping off threads from this synthetic material… [read more]
Have a whale of a Mother’s Day!
Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there whether you are feathered, finned, furry or footed! Since this past week was full of fascinating whale news, it’s the perfect time to highlight the trials and tribulations facing some finned moms out there (it’s actually more accurate to say knuckled for gray whales since they… [read more]
Great photo of a fin whale’s asymmetrical jaw coloring
This is an aerial shot of a fin whale, the second largest baleen whale and the fastest. It’s a great photo because it shows the asymmetrical coloring of the fin whale’s lower jaw. Take a close look on the left (your left, the whale’s right) and you can see the white coloring all along the… [read more]
Evidence that gulls eat anything
Not that long ago, I wrote a post called “Feeding gulls is for the birds,” explaining the pointlessness of feeding gulls bread crumbs because they will eat anything. Now I have evidence! The above photo features a Western gull eating an ochre sea star. Dinner isn’t going down smoothly, but that doesn’t stop a gull.… [read more]
7 swinging sand dollar facts
The sand dollar or Dendraster excentricus is one animal that continues to surprise me every time I see it. Long before I started learning about the ocean and marine life, I remember seeing faded-white sand dollar shells (former sand dollar endoskeletons) and not thinking much of them. Now I find sand dollars fascinating because they… [read more]
Earth art in a water drop
As I was searching for a photo to accompany my next blog post, I came across this water drop on the Wikimedia Commons home page and was mesmerized. Isn’t it beautiful?! Instead of continuing on my search for another photo, I decided I had to post this one. It’s a cloudy and rainy day in… [read more]
Quotes from the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
My weekend was awesome because I was at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books both days! It’s a great way to revel in the written word, hear authors speak about their work and learn new things. To change things up a bit, I went to a variety of panels this year on all different… [read more]
Experiencing Earth hope in a question
On a recent outing to Santa Monica, I got pretty excited over a simple question. As I was browsing around the Barnes & Noble at the Third Street Promenade, I heard this question over and over again: “Would you like a bag because I have to charge you 10 cents for it?” I spend so… [read more]
Go globe crab!
At Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, the globe crab is always on the move and doesn’t have to worry about typical crab concerns such as hiding from predators. In the wild, globe crabs aren’t as carefree and spend most of the day hiding in the sand and then under the cover of night they scurry along the… [read more]
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