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	<title>The Free Quark</title>
	
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		<title>Cormorants at Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, a sidebar. I know this and continue to ignore it: tripod = tack-sharp photos.
The IS (image stabilization) inside my Olympus is pretty darned good. And with the right shutter speeds, I can brace the camera in such a way that it renders crisp images without a tripod or monopod &#8212; which is super, because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Sea Otter</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/11/sir-sea-otter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[moss landing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefreequark.com/?p=3032</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I rarely get close enough to sea otters to get clear, sharp captures. They were once widespread throughout San Francisco Bay but were wiped out by fur hunters in the 18th and 19th centuries. We don&#8217;t see them here anymore. You have to drive southward to Moss Landing, Monterey and Morro Bay to catch glimpses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Not Quite] Deja Vu – Oil Spill on San Francisco Bay</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/11/deja-vu-oil-spill-on-san-francisco-bay/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/11/deja-vu-oil-spill-on-san-francisco-bay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost two years to the day after the Cosco Busan spill, hundreds of gallons of bunker fuel leaked into San Francisco Bay on Friday morning. As with Cosco Busan, details changed as the day went on, with reports ranging from five gallons to 100 gallons. Today&#8217;s news reports don&#8217;t add any clarity, although the best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baby Booties For Birds</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/10/baby-booties-for-birds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, Hugh and I put baby booties on sea birds. Actually, baby socks made into bird booties.
There were grebes and murres in our section of the hospital. More than 400 ailing seabirds were driven by van and flown by a Coast Guard C-130 to IBRRC in Fairfield, California. The birds came from Washington and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hues of the Central Coast</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/10/sunset-colors-on-central-coast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Central Coast]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[morro strand state beach]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hugh and I spent the weekend in Morro Bay, attending a conference that included a dynamic keynote address from photographer George Lepp. It&#8217;s an admittedly geeky endeavor when you consider that a ball-head and a bubble level can get some rousing applause in this crowd. I love it. Events like this validate my gear brain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shorebird Nation Rises Again</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/10/shorebird-nation-rises-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bay Area]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefreequark.com/?p=2982</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I picked up a telephoto lens and aimed it at my first non-human earthling, my seasons have morphed into migration schedules. Winter = Ducks. Spring= Babies. Fall (best time of all) = Shorebirds. 
I used to be an urban-girl-night-person &#8212; before I knew what I was. Autumn was: early darkness, early cocktails. (Okay, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bay &amp; Beach Flotsam #4: Hayward Shoreline</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/10/bay-beach-flotsam-4-hayward-shoreline/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/10/bay-beach-flotsam-4-hayward-shoreline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[@ Bay Flotsam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pollution & Trash]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Capturing the flotsam tossed around on San Francisco Bay &#8212; this episode shot in a small beach cove at Hayward Shoreline. Check out Bay &#038; Beach Flotsam #3 for more info on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
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		<title>Sunday in the Park With Pelicans</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/10/sunday-in-the-park-with-pelicans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/10/sunday-in-the-park-with-pelicans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[brown pelicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[san francisco bay]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Always my favorite SF Bay residents . . . photographed from Tiburon this afternoon.
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		<title>The Ghostliness of Black Diamond Mines</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/10/the-ghostliness-of-black-diamond-mines/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/10/the-ghostliness-of-black-diamond-mines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve isn&#8217;t haunted, but it&#8217;s a park grown upon the ghosts of California&#8217;s history. 
In terms of our earliest history, the spirit of the Ohlone and Miwok people still permeates the land. When I stand on our remaining wild hilltops and look to the expanse of tract development over what, by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black and White</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreequark.com/2009/10/black-and-white/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ingrid</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[american white pelicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mud flats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[palo alto baylands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shorebirds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I almost expected Man-Thing to come crawling out of the mud this morning. The humidity evoked spirits of the bayou: moss, mosquitos, mint juleps. The only time California resembles a swamp is in the wake of a tropical storm, the same wake which pummeled us with record rains a few days ago.
We did about four-miles [...]]]></description>
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