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Tag: california

The End of Hissing Lawns – Going Native in California

The End of Hissing Lawns – Going Native in California

Gautam RajaJune 3, 2025June 4, 2025

How to jettison the fashionable hissing summer lawn for a thriving native garden in the hills of Southern California

Slumbering Giants – Northern Elephant Seals of Point Reyes

Slumbering Giants – Northern Elephant Seals of Point Reyes

Sandeep SomasekharanJune 15, 2015June 16, 2015

Epiphany on wandering into a gentlemen’s club of sexually exhausted Northern Elephant Seals on a beach in Point Reyes

Encounter – Anna’s Hummingbird

Encounter – Anna’s Hummingbird

Sandeep SomasekharanMarch 23, 2015March 21, 2015

Meeting Anna’s Hummingbird, with its startling metallic pink head and dazzling green plumage, is nothing short of birding epiphany

Mission (Peak) Accomplished – A Trek Report

Mission (Peak) Accomplished – A Trek Report

Sandeep SomasekharanJuly 7, 2014July 8, 2014

A Fourth of July trek report from Mission Peak, California. Warning: Birds inside.

California dreaming with gulls and squirrels

California dreaming with gulls and squirrels

Bijoy VenugopalMay 14, 2006July 7, 2014

At a viewpoint on the California coast, we stopped for a bite, and got more than we could chew.

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