Dipper Ranch

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

First mud puddle - must have been some party going on after that rain    Rain. Here are photos of tracks that appeared in one little mud...

Juvenile western yellow-bellied racer pulled from the main springbox on October 22. Will this be the last snake observed on the Dipper Ra...

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...

With short legs, flexible forearms, and recurved claws, gray foxes readily climb trees.    What is the "fantastic fossorial fellow ...

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...

Fresh sawdust chips on a trunk. I noticed piles of fresh sawdust beneath a dying canyon live oak when I was chasing some cows out of The...

Nighttime silhouette in the wildlife camera at the cattle pen. I felt restless in late November as I often do around the full moon, but ...

The Bay Area Tracking Club visited the Dipper Ranch on September 9, 2012. With about 20 people attending, we set off on a dirt road towards...

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

Tracks at edge of Newt Pond, San Mateo Co, California, 12/29/2011 Total width 3.8 cm, width of central drag mark 3 mm footprints 1 cm wi...

Katie at Nature ID and I are having a conversation about animal sign on vegetation.  I'm posting these photos for her  and will fol...