You know, one of these days, I’ll start a half-assed non-profit, pay myself a six-figure salary, put the wife on staff, hire the kids too, put cute animal pictures on the homepage to keep the cash coming in – whew, good times.
Anyway, unrelated to that, srsly, comes now WildCare Bay Area to object to the Feds’ plans to airdrop a couple tons of poison on the Farallones (or Farallon Islands, (Spanish for pillars or “rocky outcrop,” see comments)) to kill the thousands of resident, non-native house mice what eat the eggs of endangered native birds.
Like this one. See it? Here’s the big version, via nature photographer Jenny Erbes.
All right, enough of Marin, let’s hear from the people on the scene:
In closing, Marin, You So Crazy!
A relatively fog-free day in the Sunset District.
Through the tinted glass of the ginourmous windows of Yelp-rated Sava Pool
From a higher sperspective in the Twin Peaks area, on an exceptionally clear morning.
Can you see the lighthouse on the top of South East Farallon Island?
Noisy Canon 10D at 840mm, from Christmas Tree Point Road, a skosh more than 30 miles away…
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In Spanish, when using the word, farallón as a geological description, it means rocky outcrop.
All right, fair enough.
You could add that to the Wikipedia if you wanted to deal with all that hassle.
I thought it meant “brothers” before.
Anyway, thx!
Those are really amazing shots. Can’t believe you can shoot the Farralones from Twin Peaks.
The camera does all the work.
300mm 2.8 plus 2x and 1.4x extenders
Burrito Justice used a cell phone and binocs
http://burritojustice.com/2011/02/04/farallons-via-sf-and-vice-versa/