Back to Sunol this morning (gotta get my money's worth from that annual East Bay parks pass). It was pretty foggy for a while. I hiked around till it started to clear.My new favorite spot makes good views of this woodpecker pretty much a given!

Lots of new bird photos today. The lingering rain clouds made of several hours of good light for shooting birds this morning at Sunol Regional park.

This first photo appears to be a western scrub jay, but this plumage with lots of rufous on the back is new to me...?Yellow rump warbler in the wet grass
Rufous crowned sparrow
I'm always game to photograph kinglets
Do bluebirds dance?
Turkey vulture sunning her wings after the morning rain.
another bluebird
I found a great location for shooting these woodpeckers!

I flew into Seattle on my 30th birthday. I chose a window seat on the right side of the plane hoping to catch an image of Rainier at sunset. Rainer was in fact a nice sight, but this view of the olympics, after we turned around to approach the airport from the north, was better.

So here was my favorite image from the WSU vs Stanford game. It was a close game and this image was taken with 30 seconds left in overtime. Unfortunately the cougs didn't pull it off and this photo was relegated to uselessness and this blog...

I got the chance to shoot Cougar basketball last nice as they played Cal in Berkeley. Great fun and good to be back in the action and shooting on a deadline. Sometimes I really miss the old times:) The cougs are nationally ranked by the way, #22 or 23 I think for the first time in over a quarter century. They handily defeated Cal. I'll shoot their game against stanfod on saturday afternoon and enjoy having more than 30 minutes to get images filed before deadline.

Say's Phoebe in flight at Coyote Hills regional park