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After the Lockdown
Wildlife Derick Carss 6/20/20 Wildlife Derick Carss 6/20/20

After the Lockdown

During the lockdown I was happy to stay home for a while and give my usual wildlife places a break…

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Great Blue Heron
Wildlife Derick Carss 6/13/20 Wildlife Derick Carss 6/13/20

Great Blue Heron

Everyone knows that herons eat fish, but who knew they also hunt rodents…

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Anna’s Hummingbirds
Wildlife Derick Carss 5/28/20 Wildlife Derick Carss 5/28/20

Anna’s Hummingbirds

I finally decided that if I couldn’t go to the parks I love right now, I would have to look for wildlife closer to home…

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An American Badger
Wildlife Derick Carss 3/16/20 Wildlife Derick Carss 3/16/20

An American Badger

At first, I thought it was a bobcat all curled up, but I was excited to see it was a badger…

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All in the Eyes
Wildlife Derick Carss 2/19/20 Wildlife Derick Carss 2/19/20

All in the Eyes

I was studying the photos when I noticed a small defect in the bobcat’s eye. It seemed oddly familiar…

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Año Nuevo
Wildlife Derick Carss 1/6/20 Wildlife Derick Carss 1/6/20

Año Nuevo

What better way to start January with a visit to a park named after the new year?…

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#2019BestNine
Landscape, Wildlife, Personal Derick Carss 12/31/19 Landscape, Wildlife, Personal Derick Carss 12/31/19

#2019BestNine

The Instagram trend of looking back on your best photos of the year has become a fun tradition…

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A Sense of Belonging
Wildlife, Personal Derick Carss 12/24/19 Wildlife, Personal Derick Carss 12/24/19

A Sense of Belonging

I’m pleased to say that I had my first article published in Nature Photographer magazine this week…

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Who Needs Light Anyway?
Wildlife Derick Carss 12/23/19 Wildlife Derick Carss 12/23/19

Who Needs Light Anyway?

Some days you see nothing, on others you spot three bobcats…

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One-in-a-Million
Wildlife Derick Carss 11/20/19 Wildlife Derick Carss 11/20/19

One-in-a-Million

We had the honor of spending some time with a one-in-a-million blue-eyed coyote…

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Aviator Shades
Wildlife Derick Carss 7/16/19 Wildlife Derick Carss 7/16/19

Aviator Shades

To push my bird photography to the next level I need to capture more behavior…

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The Long Way Round
Wildlife Derick Carss 6/12/19 Wildlife Derick Carss 6/12/19

The Long Way Round

I watched the bobcat catch a gopher, then take it to the bushes to eat…

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After the Rain
Wildlife Derick Carss 6/2/19 Wildlife Derick Carss 6/2/19

After the Rain

I’d rather have a day out there missing the shots than sitting at home…

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Bobcats
Wildlife Derick Carss 3/31/19 Wildlife Derick Carss 3/31/19

Bobcats

Nothing compared to finding a bobcat in the wild and watching her hunt…

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Sonoma Coast
Wildlife, Landscape Derick Carss 2/11/19 Wildlife, Landscape Derick Carss 2/11/19

Sonoma Coast

Just as I arrived, and with a break in the rain, they took off, but I managed one sharp shot at that exact moment…

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Close Encounters
Wildlife Derick Carss 1/14/19 Wildlife Derick Carss 1/14/19

Close Encounters

The photographs of a tiny burrowing owl were worth every second lying in the wet grass…

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#2018BestNine
Landscape, Wildlife, Personal Derick Carss 1/1/19 Landscape, Wildlife, Personal Derick Carss 1/1/19

#2018BestNine

This year on Instagram I created 135 posts and received a surprising 15,383 likes…

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Persistence
Wildlife Derick Carss 9/16/18 Wildlife Derick Carss 9/16/18

Persistence

My car was firmly stuck in a ditch and there was no signal on my phone either…

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Estero Trail
Wildlife, Landscape Derick Carss 9/2/18 Wildlife, Landscape Derick Carss 9/2/18

Estero Trail

Some days all the wildlife in the area comes out to say hello, sometimes I’m just pausing to take a landscape shot…

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17-Mile Drive
Wildlife, Landscape Derick Carss 7/20/18 Wildlife, Landscape Derick Carss 7/20/18

17-Mile Drive

My favorite thing is the way the ocean clouds often diffuse the sunlight and cast everything in a dreamy haze…

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