A Northern Harrier from yesterday’s visit to the refuge #NorthernHarrier #Birds #BirdWatching #SacramentoWildlifeRefuge #Fujifilm A Northern Harrier, mostly brown with a white bar on its back below the wings, is flying over a body of water with wings outstretched while looking down. In the foreground, there are bare branches, and the background features a distant shoreline with trees under a cloudy sky.

What luck at the refuge today! Among many others, we were treated to Northern Flickers, an Egret feasting on a crawdad, a really tame(😬) coyote, and a gorgeous Pheasant #NorthernFlicker #Egret #Coyote #CommonPheasant #SacramentoWildlifeRefuge #Fujifilm #SOoCA woodpecker perched on a bare branch with a blurred landscape of hills and fields in the background.

A white egret is standing in a grassy, marshy area with a small crawfish in its beak. The background is blurred with various shades of green and brown from plants and grasses.

A coyote trotting across a grassy levee with a cloudy sky and sparse vegetation in the background.

A male pheasant with vibrant plumage, featuring a red face, green neck, and mottled brown body, is standing in a grassy area with greenery and twigs in the background.

The Albums app for iOS can now save Quick Collections to Apple Music playlists. Now my Sonos speakers can directly play full albums however I like. No more AirPlay! Paradoxically, this means I will use the Albums app less. But it’s very important!

Here’s my first clear keeper ever of an American Bushtit. Such a smoll borb!A small American Bushtit perched on a tree branch among twigs and young willow leaves, set against a bright blue sky.

Flew the Beaver VFR from Orland Haigh Field (O37) to Round Valley (O09) this morning. Middle Eel River inner gorge to the left and Anthony Peak proximal to the aircraft. I got a later start than I'd like because of DST #XPlane12 #FlightSim #ThrandaDHC2 #macOSFlying a purple and orange DHC-2 Beaver over the Northern California Coast Range, passing the Middle Eel River Canyon and Anthony Peak. It's a fair mostly sunny morning with a bit of haze.

Up an hour early and heating the house an hour early. DST feels like a DOGE thing

The Seattle Times: Trump’s Forest Service firings killed dreams, left big holes to fill in WA #ValentinesDayMassacre #FederalWorkers #USFS

From SFGate: ‘There is literally no one’: Forest service in Lake Tahoe is gutted #ValentinesDayMassacre #FederalWorkers

Mount Lassen from Brokeoff Mountain, October 2019. The trail up Brokeoff is arduous with a massive payoff A mountainous landscape featuring the prominent Lassen peak in the background. The foreground has scattered trees and rugged ridge terrain. The sky is clear and blue with wispy cirrus clouds.

San Luis Obisbo Tribune: Fired Central Coast biologist confronts Musk at Trump speech:

According to the biologist, Musk doesn’t understand the intrinsic value of nature.

Places like Big Sur, the San Rafael Wilderness and Cuesta Ridge “are special wild places, and they have a value that cannot be quantified economically to billionaires,” Vizzachero said. “But all he cares about is the money.”

“He was rude and arrogant and every bit as awful as he looks on TV, but he will never understand what he’s destroying (in) this country, because he doesn’t love it the way I do,” the wildlife biologist said.

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