There are many things to hate about Facebook, but this isn’t one of them: getting to see instant beaver developments from buddies literally around the world. One friend I’m always happy to hear from is exquisite photographer Leopold Kanzler. He is lives in Vienna Austria and often is featured on the website Nature Highlights. This is what was posted today.
Climb up by Leopold Kanzler Image Details: Date: 2018 09 25 Light: Sunrise Camera: Canon 1dX MKII Lens: EF200/2 Focal Length: 200 mm Exposure: 1/250 Seconds Aperture: 1:2 ISO: 2500
I’m thinking this photo captured the cinderella of beavers, who kept dancing at the ball well after the clock struck dawn. Look at that foot lifting in defiance of her fairy godmother’s orders!
All I know about these photos is that they were taken by David Dawson in Carmichael CA, posted to Louis Kemper’s blog on river otters, and sent to me by Megan Isadore of the River Otter Ecology Project. Carmichael is just outside Ranch Cordova so generally not a very safe place to be a beaver. But these are lovely photos and he certainly looks happy enough.
It was lovely to come across this article about the talents of someone we know. Suzi deserves every bit of attention she gets, and we’re very lucky that she lives in the area.
Petaluma-based wildlife photographer Suzi Eszterhas is living her dream.
The 39-year-old animal enthusiast graduated from a childhood spent observing squirrels and birds in her backyard to photographing jaguars in Brazil and traveling around the globe documenting the lives of animals while sharing a message of conservation with future generations.
“Basically, I worked my whole life trying to make a career in wildlife photography,” the Marin County native said. “I knew as a child what I wanted to do. I’ve never really known a life with any different goals.”
Eszterhas has been published in more than 100 magazine covers and feature stories, including Time and Smithsonian magazines and BBC Wildlife and she’s earned recognitions in prestigious contests including Wildlife Photographer of the Year and Environmental Photographer of the Year competitions as well as the National Wildlife Photo Contest, but it’s not the fame that’s important to her, she said.
What a great article! I’m so happy that we got to cross paths! Suzi is smart enough to have worked her whole life to make a living doing what she loves, and she deserves this kind of article from her home town.
Though she’s done work internationally, Eszterhas, who moved to Petaluma about a year and a half ago, has also been active locally, documenting the Ninth Street Rookery in Santa Rosa, a median on a city street where birds nest, and the Tulocay Beaver Pond in Napa, where beavers established a home in a creek near a large hotel, she said.
But not a mention of US??? The original urban beavers? Your friends who told you about the beaver pond in Napa and took you there in the first place? No mention of sitting all those nights on the bank eating pad thai out of a box and enjoying the best beaver sightings you will EVER see?
Napa didn’t give you a shirt, Suzi, sheesh!
Well as it happens I was sent some other lovely Napa photos this morning, and the timing couldn’t be better to share them. These are burrowing owls at the nearby golf course, and Rusty says it’s what photographers do in the winter when beavers are hard to see. I just think it’s pretty fortuitous that we’re seeing these on SUPERB OWL SUNDAY! For reasons best understood only by me, I especially love the grumpy one.
Wake me up when it’s over. Photo by Rusty CohnNow what is he looking at? Photo by Rusty Cohn
Nice work Rusty. I was staggered the first time I saw owls living in the ground like feathered hobbits. Rusty was even lucky enough to catch a photo of the architect and tenant side by side. So I couldn’t resist playing a little.
WKBT channel 8 in LaCrosse Wisconsin wants you to appreciate the Myrick Park marsh trail in winter. Click on the image to go see how much. If you stay all the way through there’s a cheerful surprise at the end. If it doesn’t make you laugh out loud, think of it as a quiz.
Did you see it? No telling. Shh. Crazy that you’re allowed to trap 50 feet from the tail there, better be careful if you’re taking your dog for a walk. I knew there was a reason we lived in California. But do you think every time we see the ‘wildlife viewing area’ sign it means wildlife trapping area too?
I had fun begging for beaver necklaces yesterday and got two immediate positive responses. I’m gun shy about using Etsy so I’m saving it for later. (If you’ll remember they suspended my account last year because I was too effective.) Aren’t these lovely?
First, from Esther at “Winterchild jewelry” this lovely image which can be on necklaces or earrings.
She writes about the beaver: Beavers are animals I have a lot of respect for. I admire their remarkable work ethic, their ability to actually construct dams and lodges and especially their tightly knit family unit. I’m sure you’ll agree that the seconds between catching sight of a beaver and hearing the sharp slap of its tail on the water is truly delightful!
Thanks Esther Winter for your generosity and talent! Follow the links to see her other fine work.
Carry le industrious beaver with you and build your dreams into a reality.
Of course everyone knows that beaver make dreams come true, so that seems very sound advice! Go check out her many spirit animals here and thank you Laura for your generosity!
Let me know if you see anything covetous out there and I’ll do my best to add it to the auction!
It was bound to happen, that awkward moment when your day job as a legal secretary for Lerner and your evening passion of playing drums in a alter-punk club collide. Surprising at first to have your boss see you hammer the snares with a stud in your nose, and then unbelievably liberating to finally have it all together in one place.
I’m very proud of this interview. I never was allowed before to talk so much about my experience on the beaver subcommittee and it was so healing to do. For me this is a vibrant red poppy growing on the dusty battlefield where much blood was spilled 7 years ago. I think it starts slow, but you have to at least listen to the John Muir part. That story relaxed me and it gets a lot better.
You may know Dr. Heidi Perryman as the beaver believer from Martinez, California, or the defender who hosts the MartinezBeavers.org Worth a Dam website and podcast series. But between her evenings of working with municipalities, landowners and the general public on beaver protection, she’s a successful clinical psychologist.
Dr. Perryman joined Defender Radio for a unique conversation on these emotions, what they mean to us and how we can manage them in our day-to-day lives as advocates.
Cheryl sent this lovely photo of our kit on vacation at Ward street.
2014 Beaver kit: Photo Cheryl Reynolds
And speaking of emotional lives, just in case you wondered, this is what resilience looks like: courtesy of Meadow Lane in Napa.
There are many things to hate about Facebook, but this isn’t one of them: getting to see instant beaver developments from buddies literally around the world. One friend I’m always happy to hear from is exquisite photographer Leopold Kanzler. He is lives in Vienna Austria and often is featured on the website Nature Highlights. This is what was posted today.
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