A Great Blue Heron flying across the pond towards a landing spot

A Great Blue Heron hunting at the local lake

A jackrabbit eyeing me nervously right before he decides to take off ✔️

The lead brown pelicans are air-braking to allow the rest of the flock to catch up ✔️

A green heron with its catch ✔️

A femal Anna's Hummingbird moving on to the next flower ✔️

A male spotted towhee perched at a local state park

A Canada Goose flying by the inlet ✔️

An American White Pelican gliding through the water...

A black-crowned night heron approaching me after take-off

3 brown pelicans approaching at Fort Mason in San Francisco ✔️

A juvenile double-crested cormorant tossing a fish

A snowy egret flying by me

A female house finch perched in the rain

A Mute Swan swimming at the local pond

A warbler taking off when I get too close ✔️

A female belted kingfisher on her way to another perch ✔️

A mute swan rushing across the local pond ✔️

A brown pelican hunting at the inlet as it is being illuminated by the first light rays of the day...

A hungry Anna's hummingbird approaches a blossom for a sip

A California Scrub-Jay with its prize ✔️✔︎

A juvenile jackrabbits with big, unblemished ears.

Two double-crested cormorants hunting together at the local inlet ✔️ ✔︎

3 river otter pups playing after a meal ✔️

A sparrow scanning for predators

A Lesser Goldfinch scanning for the next food source

A green-winged teal couple hanging out at the local inlet ✔️

Three mallards are flying in formation ✔️

3 Canada geese taking off from the pond

A green heron taking off from the pond

4 cygnets preening while standing on a submerged pipe in a local pond

A juvenile Great Horned Out calling for its parent(s).

A river otter munching on its prey ✔️

A female Anna's Hummingbird hovering in our backyard ✔️

A female house finch clinging on its perch as it starts raining ✔️

Two buffleheads landing together at the pond ✔️ ✔︎

A Northern Shoveler taking off from the local pond. ✔️

Sometimes, when you have an opportunity and you are not ready, just take the picture, as it was the case with this image.

California Poppies are blooming at the local pond ✔️

A Black Phoebe taking off from a tree stump ✔️

A sanderling running for cover on the beach at Abbott's Lagoon at Point Reyes ✔️

One of my favorite plants in the garden, the Geranium with its abundance of sorts in different colors. These tiny blossoms create a small world of its own.

Carl Zeiss Contax 645 2.8 140mm with 1.4 tele converter on Fujifilm GFX series

Eine meiner liebsten Pflanzen im Garten sind das Geranium mit seiner Fülle an Arten und Farben. Diese kleinen Blüten erfinden eine kleine Welt für sich selbst.

A Mute Swan on its approach to land at the pond

A juvenile white-crowned sparrow on a lookout perch

A great egret picking some breakfast out of the water ✔️ ✔︎

A bufflehead swimming at the Pickleweed Inlet

A great horned owl checking me out from a branch right next to the path I'm walking on.

A white-tailed kite stationary and flapping, even although it does look like it is cruising ✔️ ✔︎

A female bufflehead on her final approach before landing at the pond

A fox squirrel munching on a dogwood berry ✔️

A snowy egret rushing across the pond in its search for breakfast