Dipper Ranch

I know gray foxes live at the Dipper Ranch because they show up on the wildlife cameras and leave me presents on the kitchen stoop. When...

Two teenage pumas kicking up their heels at a lovely spring day.    Last night, I had to climb through the tangled branches of a downed ...

The first time a bobcat goes by the camera in this time period is November 12 near first light.    A few days after I posted the Puma Sc...

Puma delicately poses on huge paws at the Dipper Ranch night of October 4, 2015.    When I lived in Florida, we called them panthers. ...

Chuck, long-distance runner and trail patrol volunteer, and his partner Chris Sometimes you meet someone whose physical appearance so ...

California slender salamander. Tiny but if you look, they are ubiquitous in even the smallest of damp locations. Robert Stebbins found tha...

Wolf's milk - actually not a fungus or a Hostess pastry - a fact I learned while browsing iNaturalist    The National Park Service i...

Arrggh, that sinking feeling when I open up my Bushnell HD Trophy trail camera and the date says January 1, 2013. It's not January an...

Mountain beaver (a.k.a. aplodontia) is one of the unusual mammals you get to practice camera trapping on at this workshop in the Sierra Ne...

Not much grows on a scree slope Photo by randomtruth .   Part 3: are you still with me? Still thinking backwards? This is my favorite p...

A mountain lion journeys along the old stage coach road. When Naiad and I returned to the house after our afternoon of tracking at the e...

To find a raccoon, be a raccoon  "We could go to the end of the road," I prompted Naiad, trying to keep her moving and distrac...

Goodnight Mindego Hill. Goodnight land of San Francisco gartersnakes. Goodnight slowly diminishing hillsides of purple starthistle.   Th...

A clear day in April on hills that often burn. View to the west from Walker Ridge, Lake County, California. It's smokey in the San F...

This way or that way? As a large mammal, mountain lions have choices on where they can go but they are still blocked by roads and human co...

On a full-moon night,  the moon rises at the same time the sun sets. Half our world is sky. At least when you are in the country and hav...

Comet PANSTARRS - thanks to sky-aware friends who point out these things. We saw the Comet PANSTARRS from the Dipper Ranch gate tonig...

Large tracks on Windy Hill Open Space Preserve (no longer sure whether these are mountain lion or not, see comments) The San Francisco ...

Coyote running in its colorful winter coat As summer progressed, the coyote pups were showing up less often on the wildlife cameras al...

If you saw this on a drive down a quiet country road, what would you think? Press "Post a Comment" below to share your thoughts....