The Big Creek Blog

Wow, it’s been a year already!  I know we’ve been busy, but where did the time go?  We are on our way to summer and Mother Nature seems to have the best Neosporin ointment around.  So many of the scars have healed and those that are left are reminders of how close we […]

The chick at Big Creek appears to be doing very well.  We can’t
actually see the chick inside the nest, but we continue to observe mom
and dad return to feed the chick in the nest.  In addition to the ground
observations, the female’s GPS data is very consistent with that of a good
chick […]

Today the VWS went to the nest to do a health check on the chick and vaccinate
it for West Nile Virus. The chick is in great shape.  Fat and happy.  Weighed about
7.5 lbs at about 41 days old.  Both parents were seen in the area.  There were
about 10 pieces of trash in […]

This was an unusual finding up at Whale Point. A striped racer (Masticophis lateralis) had a hold of this fence lizard (Sceloperus occidentalis). The lizard was alive and it seemed to be a stalemate.  Unfortunately I wasn’t able to wait around long enough to see the end result. What do you think happened?

Here are some pictures I shot while watching tonight’s “sky swell” approaching. Like the 6 foot 17 second ocean swell that arrived this morning, these clouds approached like a mirror-image of that swell in the sky tonight. The moon will be full in three days so it was pretty bright out. I got some images […]