Early Visitor
August 26th, 2008 by Robert
As I was feeding the birds this evening, guess who appeared? This sharpshin was also looking for a feeding.
This is early. Usually they are gone from April until October. Maybe a sign of an early winter? 
Commuter
August 24th, 2008 by Robert
Saw this Great Blue Heron this morning on the Ace Commuter train tracks. Mass transit is really catching on. 
Life above the cams…..
August 17th, 2008 by Robert
This guy just sat there and took in the view…………….
And STILL here…..
August 8th, 2008 by Robert
I was struck by this tonight. Still totally dry and they’re STILL here. Any idea why?
Scrub(n) Jay
August 5th, 2008 by Robert
We’ve had many birds bathing here, but this the first scrub jay.
Shortly afterwards, a house finch actually DRANK from it….. 
Paradise Butched
July 13th, 2008 by Robert
I konw it’s hot, dry and the (early) fire season but …..
goodbye paradise….. 
Fire, fire everywhere
June 27th, 2008 by Robert
Beautiful sunset - courtesy of over 1000 fires closeby. And it’s nowhere NEAR (our fire season) September…..
Hooded Oriole
June 25th, 2008 by Robert
We have a new visitor. Very rare here. I saw him the other night and posted other (not so clear) pictures on several birding forums and misidentified him as a blackheaded grosbeak. This picture proved differently.
Now I have to correct those posts….. 
Our wind blown canopy
May 27th, 2008 by Robert
As I sat at my computer, my boss came running into my office with this… 
Dove Light
May 26th, 2008 by Robert
The latest visitor to our “paradise” street light. Must be a great view…. 
How BAD IS the economy?
May 22nd, 2008 by Robert
Today at work, we had a major involuntary layoff. It was an ugly, gut wrenching experience. Watching managers enter my building and tell good friends good bye and expecting the same was horrific. I had a woman with 18 years sobbing hysterically in my arms. Those same managers walked down my hallway towards me, nodded and passed by.
It’s something you have to experience first hand to understand how BAD it really is.
Don’t ask me why I still have a job.
Paradise suburbanized
May 19th, 2008 by Robert
I know. It was going to happen. I was struck by this tonight on my nightly walk past our little “paradise”. Made me ill….. 
Black-headed grosbeak returns
May 8th, 2008 by Robert
Look who’s back!!! They’re late this year. The past several years they arrived in early April on their way somewhere else. The california quail that arrive about the same time have yet to appear.
This is a strange year…..
Red-Winged Blackbirds!!!
April 1st, 2008 by Robert
A first at our feeder. They’ve been on a fence at work but never here.
