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This was the third annual Valentine's Day pillow fight in Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco. The fight started just before 6:00 and people were stil going at it 2 hours later when I left.
A snowy egret chick thinks real hard about the next branch, which he eventually jumped over to. Shot at Baylands Nature Preserve in Palo Alto, California.
Snowy Egret parents feed their chicks at the Baylands Nature Preserve in Palo Alto, California.
While I was at the duck pond to see the egrets I noticed these three ducks going at it in the parking lot. One is a Mallard and I guess the other two are some domestic variety.
Juvenile Black Crowned Night Herons (Nycticorax nycticorax) in their nests at the Baylands Nature Preserve in Palo Alto, California. Being brown, the chicks were hard to spot at first, but it was easy to tell they were there because of all the clucking. Here's a still image of them at Flickr.
Cliff Swallows (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) have built a number of nests at the Baylands Nature Preserve visitor center in Palo Alto, California.Here's a still image of the nest on Flickr, and one of a baby who didn't make it.
When I first saw this Black Necked Stilt he had one knee bent forward, one bent backward and moved around by hopping around gingerly on one leg. This was taken at the Baylands Nature Preserve in Palo Alto, California in the marsh along San Francisco Bay.Here's a photograph of the bird on Flickr.
Bring Your Own Big Wheel is a free Big Wheel race where big people ride kid's toys down Lombard, the crookedest street in San Francisco. The funniest thing about this was the amount of tricycle parts sliding down the hill. You can see several wheels rolling down the road by themselves, but that didn't seem to stop anyone. People continued sliding downhill without them. At 2:08 a guy climbs back on his broken trike, re-installs the handlebars, and gives them the finger before taking off again. ...
The Muppet Mobile Lab visits Pixar, featuring Beaker and Dr. Bunsen Honeydew. More photos available at Flickr.
Norby's aerial view of the September SFlickr Meet at Crossroads Cafe in San Francisco, California. He spent a fair amount of time holding his camera up near the celing on the end of a giant tripod. For a change of pace, he borrowed mine for a while so he could take video too.