Yes we have no bobcats

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Alas, today was a workday. There are birds you can hear even with the doors and windows closed. We did go for a walk early in the morning and then a longer evening walk to Divide Meadow, as our after-dinner walk. Divide Meadow is about 3 miles round trip.

It started out super foggy, was sunny and warm in the middle of the day, then got super foggy again.

The wild world around us: Point Reyes is home to gray foxes. They make a sound like a dry wheezy cough, almost. It is loud and quite otherworldly. They can climb vertical, branchless tree trunks up to 60 feet high because they have rotating wrists and strong, hooked, semi-retractable claws. They do this for food, to raise their young, and to escape ground predators like coyotes.

The red foxes found in other parts of California yip more like a dog and cannot climb trees.

Foggy morning
Proof there was blue sky! We even got an umbrella this year, which makes it possible to work outside
Cliff Swallow nests on our cottage
There is water still in the creeks
Foggy Evening
Rufous hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) 
Osprey high in the fog asking for food

6:22 am – 8:10 pm, which is 13 hours and 48 minutes of daylight

The bird of the day is the Black-capped Night Heron

Here is a poem for you.

Love, Tawnia

Bird List: 44 species today

California Quail
Wild Turkey
Band-tailed Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Anna's Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Belted Kingfisher
Acorn Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Western Wood-Pewee
Hutton's Vireo
Steller's Jay
California Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Oak Titmouse
Purple Martin
Barn Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Wrentit
Pygmy Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Pacific Wren
Bewick's Wren
European Starling
Western Bluebird
American Robin
House Sparrow
House Finch
Purple Finch
Pine Siskin
Lesser Goldfinch
Dark-eyed Junco
Song Sparrow
California Towhee
Spotted Towhee
Orange-crowned Warbler
Wilson's Warbler