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	Tule Elk These four pictures of Tule Elk were taken at the San Luis Wildlife Refuge, where they were just standing in clear view. Lots of racks!
	White Faced Ibis We stopped to photograph a White-faced Ibis...
Red-winged Blackbird in Flight And got the miracle. I've been trying to photograph a red-winged blackbird for over a decade, but they're usually flushed at too great a distance. I just managed to snap this shot with the blackbird at exactly the correct distance, at a fast enough shutter speed (0.001 seconds) and just enough depth of field. I was very lucky, but it's a nice picture.
	Red-winged Blackbird in Flight This one isn't as good.
	White-faced Ibis We then returned to the ibis for several more photographs.
	Red Rock Canyon Red Rock Canyon State Park is on the east side of the Sierra Nevada, just north of Mojave. It's where the desert meets the mountains, and the rock formations are vibrant, particularly when the sun first hits them in the morning.
	150,000 My Explorer reached 150,000 miles.
	Trona Pinnacles The Trona Pinnacles are fascinating. They are old tufa (similar to the tufa at Mono Lake) but the lake has dried up and left a salt flat. So the pinnacles are now complete, and calcifying. In some of them, particularly from a distance, they look like dogs' teeth, but when you get closer, some of them are pretty big. Few people make it out to Trona, and few of them go to the pinnacles, they're not easily seen from paved roads and they are not well known.
	Desert Dandelion Desert Dandelions were the most common flower we saw.
	Unidentified Desert Flower I've not found an ID for this flower... yet.
	Desert Chicory Desert Chocory mixed with dandelions.
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	Desert View The desert view from Hole in the Rock.
	Hole in the Rock Hole in the Rock had some fantastic rock formations.
	Mesa A Distant Mesa. Note the different erosion rates.
	Hole in the Rock More Holes.
	Green Desert These mountains were green... Either they were about to bloom, or we just missed it.
	Yucca Flower Yucca flowers were pretty common.
	Joshua Tree Flower A flowering Joshua Tree
	Ocotillo The ocotillo were in bloom.
	Snowcaps from Keys View The skies were very clear for viewing a good distance, and these snowcaps were clear.
	Looking to People The view into the valley was a bit more murky.
	A lizard A loan lizard.
	Joshua Trees in Bloom The joshua trees were still in bloom.
	Yucca in Bloom The yuccas were also impressive.
	Vervain Vervain.
	Phlox Phlox
	Desert Dandelions The most common flower was the desert dandelion.
	Flowers More random flowers.
	Hedgehog Cactus Hedgehog cactus was also blooming.
	Eagle Mountain Ghost Town Eagle Mountain used to be a mining town, and also a prison town, but was closed down in 2003. The ghost town is fenced off with a caretaker, in the hopes that it can become a town again.
	Harbor Seals It was low tide at Bolinas Lagoon, so there weren't many birds. The seals were hanging out, though.
	Western Grebe A solitary Western Grebe came into view.
	Canada Goslings These goslings were swimming on Lake Nummy.
	Eastern Kingbird The Eastern Kingbird was high in the tree.
	Phoebe A Phoebe was barely visible.