Archive for the 'Wildlife' Category
The Wily And Elusive Desert Bighorn Sheep
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Bear joke
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Lichen on pallid manzanita
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, April 21st, 2008
Some Observations on Xantusia vigilis
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
I believe this is what they call agonic behavior
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Gridlock
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Frontiers in completely non-ADA-compliant web authoring
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Jeff Guidry and Freedom
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Scratching
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Public relations professionals and other goddamned liars
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Monday
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Save the Desert Cahuilla Prehistoric Area
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, February 8th, 2008
Killing whales for empire
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Requiem
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Nature photography
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, January 28th, 2008
Icterus parisorum
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, January 25th, 2008
Flight
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, January 25th, 2008
Creek in flood
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Ground truthing
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Ha ha ha ha ow
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
Close the San Francisco Zoo
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Yucca moths
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Birds
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Iridescence
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, December 6th, 2007
jmartin has a question
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
At Tuolumne Meadows, 11/24/2007
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, November 24th, 2007
Run
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
The Lost Country, part one
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, November 17th, 2007
Phoebe
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, November 15th, 2007
A couple small items of remarkable importance
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Kessler Peak
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, November 12th, 2007
Yesterday at the Tule Elk Refuge
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, November 12th, 2007
On the way out the door
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, November 9th, 2007
This is our Bay
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, November 8th, 2007
Fires
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Seen and not seen
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, October 20th, 2007
Crow’s foot III
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
This is why…
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, October 7th, 2007
More from Farland
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Meals
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, September 29th, 2007
Underage turtle pr0n
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, September 28th, 2007
Animeme
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Green fire
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Mojave storm
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, September 20th, 2007
For example, consider the Cooper’s hawk…
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, September 13th, 2007
Wrong Species of Great Ape Critically Endangered
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
Field guides
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, August 20th, 2007
Pale wing
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, August 20th, 2007
The lyrebird sings the sounds of its own ending
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, August 5th, 2007
Pine needles
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
Speeding kills bears
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, July 16th, 2007
Extracting value
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, July 7th, 2007
Crow’s foot
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, July 4th, 2007
Point Lobos
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, July 4th, 2007
Grizzlies ate salmon here
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, June 29th, 2007
41°19’05.32"N, 122°29’57.45"W, 7466 feet elevation
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, June 11th, 2007
Finally someone notices
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, June 4th, 2007
Dogs in Elk
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, May 11th, 2007
Masticophis lateralis euryxanthus
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, May 7th, 2007
Xeric Conifer Woodland, then and now
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Carduelis psaltria
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, April 21st, 2007
Today’s natural history observations
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, March 29th, 2007
A woman after my own heart
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Off the feeder
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
White spider on Ceanothus
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, March 18th, 2007
A good year for Ceanothus
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, March 18th, 2007
Useless Arithmetic
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, March 10th, 2007
Drosera capensis
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, March 8th, 2007
Maricich
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
Ravens
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, February 19th, 2007
Taricha torosa
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, February 18th, 2007
Charadrius vociferus
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
Compost turning
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, December 24th, 2006
Knew this was coming, but that doesn’t make it any better
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, December 14th, 2006
I hate it when butter freezes in my mouth
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, December 10th, 2006
Back on the mountain
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
Flight
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, December 2nd, 2006
Mystery beetle
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, October 9th, 2006
Comparative vertebrate behavior
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, October 2nd, 2006
Walking
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, September 21st, 2006
Aunt Selam
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, September 21st, 2006
Smarter than the average bayarean
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
Immigration and the environment, continued
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
San Joaquin salmon
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, September 14th, 2006
Buteo lineatus
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
Whoosh
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, August 21st, 2006
A reservoir, loner me
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, August 14th, 2006
Name that corpse!
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, August 11th, 2006
Mold
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, August 6th, 2006
Lauren
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, July 30th, 2006
Sabino Canyon
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, July 20th, 2006
Fume
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
Save the Australian lungfish
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, July 14th, 2006
Fire
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, July 13th, 2006
Aphelocoma californica
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
Failure
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, June 25th, 2006
The border fence
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
Whitebark pines
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
Diablo yesterday
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, June 19th, 2006
Barn owl
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
Thomomys bottae
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, June 1st, 2006
Sciurus niger
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, May 20th, 2006
Today
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, May 14th, 2006
Big black kitty
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, May 12th, 2006
Alamo Road
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
Refuge
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, May 5th, 2006
Mount Diablo
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, April 30th, 2006
At the mile mark
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, April 30th, 2006
Vermilion flycatcher
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, April 24th, 2006
Chaos
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, April 16th, 2006
Home
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, April 14th, 2006
The wild blue inner
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
A short true story in the recounting of which the author fritters away his feminist street cred
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
Better and better
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
Wrong answers in Genesis
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, April 8th, 2006
Mount Diablo
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, April 3rd, 2006
Serpientes
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, April 3rd, 2006
Optimism
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, March 30th, 2006
Island biogeography
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, March 25th, 2006
Clamshell
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
Sake
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
Parker Peak
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
The world is a carousel of color
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006
Pretty much says it all
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, March 20th, 2006
Mud
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, March 12th, 2006
Sonnet
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, March 10th, 2006
Happy Birthday, Dr. Myers!
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, March 9th, 2006
The rape of the earth
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
I love this planet: chapter 826
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, March 7th, 2006
What do you guys think?
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, March 4th, 2006
The cursorial life
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, February 18th, 2006
That’d be the cat, Bob.
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, February 16th, 2006
Birding
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
Watching tule elk
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, February 10th, 2006
Tule Elk
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, February 10th, 2006
This is my brain
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
In the Joshua tree forest
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, January 30th, 2006
27 new species in California
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, January 18th, 2006
Islands as gene banks
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, December 17th, 2005
Day two
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, December 10th, 2005
Olduvai George
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
Pears
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
Save The Tree Octopus!
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, November 4th, 2005
The day of the dead: Golden Gate Bridge department
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005
Sex and drugs
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, October 25th, 2005
Nothro y nosotros
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, October 10th, 2005
The Natural History of Western Trees
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, October 5th, 2005
Heading to the Mojave again
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, September 28th, 2005
The year we lost the deserts
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, September 23rd, 2005
Odocoileus hemionus
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, September 23rd, 2005
This is not the exciting sloth-related news of which I spoke
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, September 21st, 2005
What’s owed to those who have gone before
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, September 18th, 2005
Look for more stories like this to come
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
Durio zibethinus
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005
Mephitis
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, August 18th, 2005
How Zeke ran away
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, August 11th, 2005
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, August 5th, 2005
The burn
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005
Housekeeping
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, July 26th, 2005
Friday terrestrial crustacean blogging!
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, July 22nd, 2005
Eft
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, July 19th, 2005
Hot hike
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, July 15th, 2005
Two ponds
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, July 14th, 2005
Briones
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, July 10th, 2005
Burn
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, July 7th, 2005
Coolest thing ever
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, June 26th, 2005
Echinacea
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, June 23rd, 2005
Bear Valley trail
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, June 12th, 2005
Advanced wildlife photography
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, June 12th, 2005
Mather Point, May 18, 2005
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, June 3rd, 2005
Creationism by increment
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, May 24th, 2005
Guest Blogger: Wallace Stegner
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, May 24th, 2005
The Canyon hike
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, May 23rd, 2005
Tikaboo Valley
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, May 21st, 2005
Still not dead
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, May 18th, 2005
White Rock Canyon
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, May 13th, 2005
Blog entry #500
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, May 8th, 2005
Some of my neighbors at work
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, May 2nd, 2005
Quail
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, April 30th, 2005
Back
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, April 28th, 2005
Zigadenus fremontii
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, April 16th, 2005
Vanessa cardui
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, April 11th, 2005
Snail sex
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, April 5th, 2005
On invasions and exotics and natives
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, April 4th, 2005
Red Rock Raven
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, March 29th, 2005
Discovering a better network
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, March 21st, 2005
At this point, I’m just grateful we weren’t talking about lutefisk
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, March 19th, 2005
Infamy and, um, famy
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, March 16th, 2005
Tonight, before going to bed
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, March 15th, 2005
Aneides lugubris
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, March 12th, 2005
Surfeit of sore feet
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, March 7th, 2005
thylacines
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005
Coprinus
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
That special time of year
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, February 5th, 2005
Cathartes aura
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, January 2nd, 2005
Mallards
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, December 27th, 2004
Skeletons
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, December 3rd, 2004
Wing
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, December 1st, 2004
Broadcasting
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, November 30th, 2004
Did you mean: “The Aegina monologues”
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, November 28th, 2004
A lot of galls
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, November 21st, 2004
Acorns
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, November 19th, 2004
Who’ll inherit the earth again?
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, November 7th, 2004
Out in the rain
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004
Chicken Point
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, October 22nd, 2004
Puma
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, September 23rd, 2004
Near Tomales Point
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, September 15th, 2004
A note from out there
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, September 13th, 2004
Ground Squirrels
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, September 6th, 2004
Another wild, nasty, hostile feral cat
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, September 6th, 2004
Dirty dog
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, August 27th, 2004
Aquatics
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, August 23rd, 2004
Anne
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, August 19th, 2004
Gleaning the brine
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, July 27th, 2004
Rockets’ red glare
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, July 5th, 2004
Birds of the week
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, June 29th, 2004
Walking the dog
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, June 17th, 2004
Today’s photos
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, May 31st, 2004
Mobs
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, May 14th, 2004
Viene la mujer
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, April 27th, 2004
Animals by which I have been bitten, annotated version
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, April 6th, 2004
Animals by which I have been bitten
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, March 28th, 2004
The end
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, March 25th, 2004
In place
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, March 16th, 2004
Dillard’s cat
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, January 12th, 2004
Branta canadensis
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, December 28th, 2003
Shellfish and place
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, November 30th, 2003
Despair
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, November 17th, 2003
Tehachapi to Tonopah
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, October 24th, 2003
Up Sobrante Ridge
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, October 21st, 2003
Mantis religiosa
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, October 20th, 2003
Artemisia tridentata
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, October 16th, 2003
Pelecanus occidentalis
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, October 14th, 2003
Snake
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, October 12th, 2003
We have stabilimentum
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, August 22nd, 2003
Delinquents
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, August 13th, 2003
Argiope trifasciata
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, August 13th, 2003
Metal
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Sunday, August 10th, 2003
Leptocoris trivittatus
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, July 31st, 2003
Del Puerto Canyon
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Monday, July 21st, 2003
::crickets::
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, July 19th, 2003
Out of its element
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, July 17th, 2003
Pronounced “tool ease”
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, July 3rd, 2003
For the Love of God, Montresor!
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, June 17th, 2003
Kites are fun
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, June 13th, 2003
Barn swallows
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, June 13th, 2003
Sunset
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, June 11th, 2003
Envy
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Tuesday, June 10th, 2003
Breaking eggs
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, June 7th, 2003
Reptile parts
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, June 5th, 2003
Animal minds
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Wednesday, June 4th, 2003
Reading
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Saturday, May 31st, 2003
Hearing the Nuttall’s
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Friday, May 30th, 2003
Running the creek
Posted by: Chris Clarke on Thursday, May 29th, 2003
