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Walking On Air
Glimpses of wildlife and wilderness, captured on video by a wide-eyed city slicker. ©
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tags: deer nature outdoors river seal wilderness  wildlife yosemite 



Cracked Tees
Play Podcast    Snowy Egret Chick
Snowy Egret Chick on blip.tv

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.

Download: MPEG4 Video (.mp4)

noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Endico)   Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:56:59 -0500

Play Podcast    Egret Family
Egret Family on blip.tv

Snowy Egret parents feed their chicks at the Baylands Nature Preserve in Palo Alto, California.

Download: MPEG4 Video (.mp4)

noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Endico)   Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:51:38 -0500

Play Podcast    Armless Duck Wrestling
Armless Duck Wrestling on blip.tv

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.

Download: MPEG4 Video (.mp4)

noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Endico)   Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:26:11 -0500

Play Podcast    Juvenile Black Crowned Night Herons
Juvenile Black Crowned Night Herons on blip.tv

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.

Download: MPEG4 Video (.mp4)

noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Endico)   Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:41:25 -0500

Play Podcast    Cliff Swallow Nests
Cliff Swallow Nests on blip.tv

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.

Download: MPEG4 Video (.mp4)

noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Endico)   Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:39:31 -0500

Play Podcast    Broken Legged Stilt
Broken Legged Stilt on blip.tv

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.

Download: MPEG4 Video (.mp4)

noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Endico)   Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:41:11 -0500

Play Podcast    Streaming in Ten Seconds
Streaming in Ten Seconds on blip.tv

At the Lukens Lake trailhead water falls over a log and a new shoot grows next to a creek in a spot where snow has recently melted.

Download: MPEG4 Video (.mp4)
noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Endico)   Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:06:58 -0500

Play Podcast    Taft Point In Ten Seconds

Taft Point In Ten Seconds on Vimeo
Download taftpoint.mp4 , 1.2mb

Looking down from Taft Point to the floor of the Yosemite Valley, 3200 ft. below.
noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Endico)   Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:36:58 -0500

Play Podcast    Tweeting

Long Water on Vimeo
Download: longwater.mp4 ,1.8mb

Twenty three seconds of birds chirping and water dancing in the sun in the reflecting pool at the Pulgas Water Temple on Cañada Road in San Mateo County.
noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Endico)   Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:35:45 -0500

Play Podcast    Beached

Beached on Vimeo (4:16 minutes)
Download: beached.mp4, 28.3MB

Elephant seals lounge on the beach at Point Reyes National Seashore in California. Music by subatomicglue.com. Photos by Jef Poskanzer and me.
noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Endico)   Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:34:29 -0500

Play Podcast    Rattlesnake Wrestling


Yesterday was quite the day for reptiles. On my hike at Windy Hill I saw ten lizards and five snakes! There were two rattlesnakes, one normal looking garter snake, one garter snake with a red stripe on its belly (which I think is rare and endangered) plus another big snake which I mistook for a rattler at first but wound up not having rattles.

The most exciting, though was the show by these two rattlesnakes. Luckily I happened to notice them when I was 20 feet away and not as I was passing next to them. At first all I saw were two heads sticking out of the grass, swaying like they were in a snake charming act. Then they started wrestling and tumbled down on to the trail where I could see them better and take lots of pictures plus a short video.

I stuck around for 20 or 30 minutes watching them partly because it was so interesting and partly because they were blocking my way. They never moved more than a few feet from the trail though so I finally turned around and took a different route.

Rattlesnakes Rattlesnake Dance Shot of Rattles

Video: Rattlesnakes, 2 minutes
Download: Rattlesnakes.mp4, 32 MB
noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Endico)   Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:32:36 -0500

Play Podcast    Down The Merced River

Nevada Fall

A trip down the Merced river starting at the rim of Yosemite Valley, down the cascade at Illilouette Creek, then over to the top of Nevada Fall, down to Vernal Fall with a jump off Swinging Bridge into the river in Yosemite National Park.

My new camera can shoot movie clips too and this movie was shot with this camera. As video cameras go, its pretty awful but it has a big advantage over my real video cam. Its small enough to fit in my pocket and as my main still camera, I'll carry it around with me a lot. A crapcam in the pocket is worth a TV studio at home. Maybe now I'll post to this blog more often.

Download: Down The Merced River, 22MB, 3.5 minutes
noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Endico)   Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:30:38 -0500

Congratulations, Its A Tail!

Its A Tail!

Originally uploaded by Dawn Endico.

Last January I got to see four elephant seal births. I was really lucky to see the first one. The mom was close to the surf, and pretty far from me. I had no idea that she was in labor and just happened to be looking out that direction when I caught a big wet 'sploosh'. Wow!

After that, I went back to the other end of the beach where there were a bunch of cows waiting to give birth, and several people watching and trying to figure out which ones were in labor.

Someone noticed that this one was about to give birth when she lifted up her tail and there was a tiny little black tail sticking out too. Two more births followed this one around sunset but it was too dark for pictures.

If you watch the slideshow at high speed you can pretend its a movie of the birth.
noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Endico)   Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:25:27 -0500

Play Podcast    Mule Deer at Yosemite

Deer at Leidig Meadow

These mule deer were grazing just a few feet from the sidewalk, not caring much about the tourists walking by. One doe did get a bit spooked though when someone tried to feed her a handful of grass. Later I found out that the animal that's caused the most human injury in Yosemite National Park isn't the bear, or even the coyote. Its the mule deer. Taken in the Leidig Meadow, near Swinging Bridge in Yosemite Valley.

Download: Mule Deer at Yosemite, 21.4MB, 4 minutes
noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Endico)   Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:37:59 -0500

Play Podcast    Bull Roar

Point Piedras Blancas

A short clip showing the unique roar of an adult bull Northern Elephant Seal. You can hear these guys from a mile away. Video shot near San Simeon, California in February 2003.

Download: Bull Roar, 2.5MB, 18 seconds
noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Endico)   Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:39:35 -0500

Play Podcast    Go Away, Kid

Elephant Seal Pup

Now on his own, an elephant seal pup is rebuffed as he tries to make friends. Taped at the elephant seal rookery at Point Piedras Blancas, near San Simeon California in February 2003.

I think this pup had been recently weaned. I'm not sure if he wanted a replacement mom and a good meal or was just looking for a piece of real estate to call home.

This is my first time using internet archive and mp4. Let me know how well this works. I believe the mp4 should work in any modern media player. It works for me on Mac in quicktime and Realplayer 10. I think it should work on windows in either of those apps plus Windows Media Player.

Download: Go Away, Kid, 27.1MB, 10 minutes
noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Endico)   Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:22:32 -0500

Play Podcast    Beach Bliss
I want to see if i can get this videoblogging stuff working in ANT. Since I don't have any video of my own online yet I'll link to this one of dolphins at sunset by a couple who are obviously walking on air.

For a moment like this you can endure a couple months in a dungeon.

Download: beach bliss.mov, 5.7MB, 4.5 minutes
noreply@blogger.com (Dawn Endico)   Mon, 12 Sep 2005 22:57:23 -0500



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