Another one for #stunday Sunday!
#westcoastkin #eastcoastkin #nature #lakechabot #photography
A group of American white pelicans takes flight at Lake Chabot in Castro Valley, Calif., Sunday morning, December 11, 2016.
#AmericanWhitePelican #Pelican #BirdsInFlight #Birds #LakeChabot #CastroValley #NaturePhotography #BirdWatching #WildlifePhotography #Photography #BirdsOfBlueSky
The image of an American white pelican is reflected in the waters of Lake Cabot in Castro Valley, Calif., Saturday morning, December 3, 2016.
“Courage is a kind of salvation. Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
― Plato
#AmericanWhitePelican #Pelican #LakeChabot #CastroValley #Birds #BirdsOfBlueSky #EastBayParks #CaliforniaWildlife #WildlifePhotography #BirdWatching #NatureLovers
A great blue heron flies over Lake Chabot in Castro Valley, Calif., Sunday morning January 14, 2024.
“All learning has an emotional base.” ― Plato
#GreatBlueHeron #BirdsInFlight #Birds #BirdWatching #BirdsOfBlueSky #LakeChabot #WildlifePhotography #Photography #NatureLovers #CaliforniaBirds #Photography #CastroValley
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” ― Plato
#AmericanWhitePelican #Pelican #BirdsInFlight #Birds #LakeChabot #CastroValley #CaliforniaWildlife #PelicanPhotography #NaturePhotography #BirdWatching #WildlifePhotography #Photography #NatureLovers #BirdsOfBlueSky
Scorpion with a brown body, pale yellow legs
Scorpion mouth with mites crawling over it
Flipped a log today and found the roundest Uroctonus mordax aka Western Forest #Scorpion I can remember. This species is very docile and I’ve handled them many times without them showing any signs of aggression. #LakeChabot #UroctonusMordax
Also up today near #LakeChabot was of the the small but wonderful flowers : Crassula connata. Pushing 3 cm this little plant is easy to overlook, but worth getting on the found to get a good look at.
#california #wildflowers #CNPS #californiaNativePlants
Sarcoscypha coccinea, commonly known as the scarlet cup. Bright red cup fruiting from wood above bright green moss
Hygrocybe laetissima, also known as the cherry-red waxy cap.
Sarcoscypha coccinea, scarlet cup fungi, seen sporadically upon a messy dark forest floor
I’m always fascinated when distant species of #fungi choose the same bright color in an otherwise dark forest. What evolutionary advantage selected for the brilliant red of Hygrocybe laetissima and Sarcoscypha cf. coccinea in the dark Umbellularia californica forests of the SF Bay Area? #lakechabot
Our second portrait of Nicole and Bella. Lake Chabot. #Lakechabot #Portrait #portraitpainting #portraiture #Painting #AlamedaArt #Painter #Painters #Artist #Art #artwork #TandemPainting
Photograph of a coyote, Lake Chabot Regional Park.
First coyote of 2025. Go go coyote legs!
#mammals #coyote #lakechabot #wildlifephotography
“Don’t wait for miracles, your whole life is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein
#GreatBlueHeron #BirdsInFlight #Birds #BirdWatching #LakeChabot #WildlifePhotography #Photography #NatureLovers #CaliforniaBirds #CastroValley #BirdsOfBlueSky
“Fantasy is way more important than knowledge because knowledge is limited.” ― Albert Einstein
#AmericanWhitePelican #Pelican #BirdsInFlight #Birds #LakeChabot #CastroValley #CaliforniaWildlife #PelicanPhotography #NaturePhotography #BirdWatching #WildlifePhotography #Photography #NatureLovers
“You can never be too smart to know everything.
Everyday you learn new things through events that transpire daily in your life” ― Albert Einstein
#GreatBlueHeron #BirdsInFlight #Birds #BirdWatching #LakeChabot #WildlifePhotography #Photography #NatureLovers #CaliforniaBirds #CastroValley
“In times of crisis people are generally blind to everything outside their immediate necessities.”
― Albert Einstein
#GreatEgret #BirdsInFlight #Birds #BirdWatching #LakeChabot #CastroValley #WildlifePhotography #NatureLovers #CaliforniaBirds #BirdsOfBluesky #Photography #NatureLovers
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.” ― Albert Einstein
#GreatBlueHeron #BirdsInFlight #Birds #BirdWatching #LakeChabot #WildlifePhotography #Photography #NatureLovers #CaliforniaBirds #CastroValley #BirdsOfBluesky
“Mozart's music was so pure that it seemed to have been ever-present in the universe, waiting to be discovered by the master.” ― Albert Einstein
#AmericanWhitePelican #Pelican #Birds #LakeChabot #CastroValley #NaturePhotography #BirdWatching #WildlifePhotography #Photography #NatureLovers
“If I can’t picture it, I can’t understand it.” ― Albert Einstein
#GreatBlueHeron #BirdsInFlight #Birds #BirdWatching #LakeChabot #WildlifePhotography #Photography #NatureLovers #CaliforniaBirds #CastroValley
“Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society.” ― Albert Einstein
#AmericanWhitePelican #Pelican #BirdsInFlight #Birds #LakeChabot #CastroValley #CaliforniaWildlife #NaturePhotography #BirdWatching #WildlifePhotography #Photography #NatureLovers
“Condemnation before investigation, is the highest form of ignorance.” ― Albert Einstein
#Hummingbird #BirdsInFlight #Birds #LakeChabot #CastroValley #CaliforniaWildlife #NaturePhotography #BirdWatching #WildlifePhotography #Photography
“Did you know: The only source of knowledge is experience”
― Albert Einstein
#GreatBlueHeron #BirdsInFlight #Birds #BirdWatching #LakeChabot #WildlifePhotography #Photography #NatureLovers #CaliforniaBirds #CastroValley
“The only difference between genius and insanity is that genius has its limits.” ― Albert Einstein
#GreatBlueHeron #BirdsInFlight #Birds #BirdWatching #LakeChabot #WildlifePhotography #Photography #NatureLovers #CaliforniaBirds #CastroValley
“There is nothing to fear but fear itself.”
― Albert Einstein
#GreatBlueHeron #Birds #BirdWatching #LakeChabot #WildlifePhotography #Photography #NatureLovers #CaliforniaBirds #Photography #CastroValley
“Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.”
― Albert Einstein
#GreatBlueHeron #BirdsInFlight #Birds #BirdWatching #LakeChabot #WildlifePhotography #Photography #NatureLovers #CaliforniaBirds #Photography #CastroValley
“The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” ― Albert Einstein
#GreatBlueHeron #Birds #BirdWatching #LakeChabot #WildlifePhotography #NatureLovers #CaliforniaBirds #Photography #CastroValley
“A quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest.”
― Albert Einstein
#GreatBlueHeron #BirdsInFlight #Birds #BirdWatching #LakeChabot #WildlifePhotography #NatureLovers #CaliforniaBirds #Photography #CastroValley
“When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.”
― Albert Einstein
#GreatBlueHeron #BirdsInFlight #Birds #BirdWatching #LakeChabot #WildlifePhotography #NatureLovers #CastroValley
“A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.” ― Albert Einstein
#GreatBlueHeron #BirdsInFlight #Birds #BirdWatching #LakeChabot #WildlifePhotography #NatureLovers #CaliforniaBirds #CastroValley
“Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein
#BlackCrownedNightHeron #Heron #BirdsInFlight #Birds #BirdWatching #LakeChabot #CastroValley #WildlifePhotography #NatureLovers #CaliforniaBirds #CaliforniaBirds