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Modified 21-Dec-23
Created 4-Nov-17
35 photos
This collection contains 35 images -- I find it hard to choose between them. A somewhat tighter selection has resulted in the 27 selected for my post for today, 10/20/2017, near the top of "A Day at a Time". Please leave a comment on the image(s) you like best!
One of my favorite valley oaks keeps drawing me: the one with an accompanying toyon bush, at the start of the Birding Transect Trail. This morning, I capture image after image, in changing light, and with different views, angles, perspectives, vantage points; with wide-angle and zoom lenses. There is always something else to try. The light is wonderful. [And I do have some free time here, before my fellow birders arrive from Escobar Gate.]
The toyon bush is at its peak, resplendent, covered in red berries, ready for the expected migrant flocks of cedar waxwings and clouds of robins.
My patience -- or is it obsession? -- is rewarded. A lone buck wanders along the ridgetop, straight for the tree. Two-pronged antlers. He is in no hurry, ambling along. He even responds to my shouted requests, pausing, lifting his head to look at me: antlers resplendent. Thrice. Then he ambles off stage left, still looking for a fertile doe or two.
I do hope I got the shot.
So many nice images. Please leave a comment on the one you like best of all!
