Carmel

chris and i took a mini vacation to the beach town near monterey; Carmel

ok, i didnt take this picture, but this picture is so cute!

parakeets

i babysat my friend nikki's parakeets for a week. they were great! and so in love with each other they hardly noticed me

this was the female

and this is the male

foodz?

Bernard Field Station

I took an afternoon walk in the Bernard Field Station to clear my mind before the avalanche of finals work for the semester fell... and brought the cam

bushtit on a mission

curious black phoebe

soaring

8 month anniversary with chris

chris jumped a fence on his way back from training to nab this beauty to surprise me... sorry (and thanks) original owner!

sequoia national park

only brought the disposable for this camping trip, i liked this picture best.

Joshua Tree

remembered the tripod!

special notes: we saw some California Quail and a Roadrunner the next morning! very exciting!!!! but my batteries were dead!!!! bahhhh humbug

Zion National Park

its only a California Condor, no big deal or anything

Lost baby

This bird got stuck in the high-ceiling entrance area to my college's dining hall. I identified it to be a juvenile peregrine falcon, and tried to help direct it out by playing calls on my laptop but to no avail =(

Eventually it found its own way out during the night

Dissection

STARFISH

lamprey

chris

heh heh

Australian Wildlife

laughing kookaburra

Australian darter (male)

magpie lark

masked lapwing (locally known as a plover)

rainbow bee eater

royal spoonbill and ibis

great bowerbird

little pied-cormorant

rainbow lorikeet

paper wasps

Angie and Nicola

Chris has some cute nieces...

hanging onto Uncle "Kik"

Nicola

Angelica

Magnetic Island

friarbird

female black cockatoo

green ants

sulphur-crested cockatoo

startled female black cockatoo

stone bush curlew (i think...)

my lovely boyfriend. isn't he adorable???