Visitors 64
Modified 28-Aug-25
Created 28-Aug-25
68 photos
Gentle sunlight bathes the Blue Oak canopy over the Grassland Fire Road from Escobar Gate. The blue sky is ribboned with whispy clouds. Down near the horizon over the East Bay Hills, a bright beacon shines, a rainbowish smear, a false sun: Sun Dog -- sunlight refracting in gently-falling plate-shaped hexagonal ice crystals within frozen clouds.
Sharing the peaceful morning with the awestruck photographer, a coyote prowls the ridge, alert for prey.
A Mountain Lion has marked this territory – twice.
Gentle slanting sunlight casts green Coyote Brush and autumnal rusty-red Poison Oak in relief. Sunlight creeps into hollows.
All morning, whispy cumulus clouds drift across the sky, giving structure to the heavens, frozen stratosphere contrasting with dew-free, warming Jasper Ridge ‘Ootchamin ‘Ooyakma on this birding transect day.
Sharing the peaceful morning with the awestruck photographer, a coyote prowls the ridge, alert for prey.
A Mountain Lion has marked this territory – twice.
Gentle slanting sunlight casts green Coyote Brush and autumnal rusty-red Poison Oak in relief. Sunlight creeps into hollows.
All morning, whispy cumulus clouds drift across the sky, giving structure to the heavens, frozen stratosphere contrasting with dew-free, warming Jasper Ridge ‘Ootchamin ‘Ooyakma on this birding transect day.
Dan Quinn