Tag Archives: The Sea Ranch

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Eric Zetterholm almost couldn't believe what he was seeing. Driving home after work recently, he spotted this Coyote.

We don't see Coyotes often on the coast, but one occasionally appears. We're lucky Eric had his camera at the ready to show us this healthy-looking Coyote.

Thanks to Eric for allowing me to share his photos with you here.

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Tricia Schuster found the non-native Iceplant in full, glorious bloom recently.

The flowers set off the beautiful Pacific Ocean, don't they?

Thanks to Tricia for allowing me to share her photo with you here.

We are having a magnificent, warm day. The breeze picked up late in the morning, but with the early morning calm I spotted several Gray Whales headed north.

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It's so beautiful to see the Moon set "into" the Pacific Ocean. Rozanne Rapozo photographed this from The Sea Ranch. Notice the reflected light from the Moon in the ocean - some call this the Stairway to Heaven.

Thanks to Rozanne for allowing me to share her photo with you here.

Rain early this morning! Not a lot - a tenth of an inch - but it is always welcome. Maybe more tomorrow.

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Before the February heatwave arrived, we had a pretty awesome fog bank over the ocean and on the immediate bluffs. Tricia Schuster photographed the sight on The Sea Ranch.

It almost looks menacing, doesn't it? But it was just a gentle fog bank, nothing to worry about!

Thanks to Tricia for allowing me to share her photo with you here.

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Chris Swarth witnessed a Bobcat successfully hunting a Pocket Gopher. Chris wrote, “I snapped this photo from my kitchen window in The Sea Ranch near the airport. I’d been watching the Bobcat crouched motionless with twitching tail, nose in the grass, for one to two minutes. I grabbed my camera and a few seconds later watched as the Bobcat snatched the gopher from its hole and walked toward me. The Bobcat then sat nearby in the shade and within a few minutes had consumed its prey. It was a large gopher, probably a male.”

I noticed the Pocket Gopher had something in its mouth and queried Chris about it, mentioning the photo shows the food chain in action. Chris wrote, “Yes, the gopher does hold a bit of grass or other plant in its mouth. At the base of this plant, at the gopher’s mouth, at first I thought this was a small bulb. But now I think that this light spot is a bit of distended cheek pouch – the ‘pocket’ which gives the gopher its name: the Pocket Gopher.”

Thanks to Chris for allowing me to share his photo with you here.

Warm with absolutely no wind, and clouds overhead...it sure seems strange for February.