Coyote Hills Regional Park Scenery (Fremont, CA)

Today I have scenery photos from Coyote Hills Regional Park in Fremont, CA. All of the photos for today are taken with my new Canon EOS 5D Mark III. These photos include one HDR composition and some regular scenery shots. I hope you enjoy viewing the photos. If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, definitely check out Coyote Hills Regional Park. It is a great place for photography, bike riding, walking around, and hiking. There are both walking and hiking trails in the park.

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I recently gotten into some 32-bit HDR work. Here is an HDR composition of the walking trail there. Looks really natural doesn't it? I suggest you give 32-bit processing a try. 

Got down low with my tripod but shadow still showed up. :/ I guess it does add a bit to the photo though.  

These are all the photos for today. I hope you have enjoyed viewing them. If you are wondering why I still haven't posted any Yosemite National Park photos yet, it is because I am still processing them. I am sick and have a lot of work build up so it might take a while before I finish processing them. Please don't forget to share the blog post with your friends and family members! Also, if you want to get notifications when I post up more photos, "Like" us on Facebook or follow me on Twitter and Google+. These links can also be found on the top of the right sidebar.

Augustin Bernal Park Birds

Today I will be posting the bird photos I took at Augustine Bernal Park. Augustin Bernal Park is located in Pleasanton, CA. The hiking trail I was on is only open to Pleasanton residents and their guests. I sometimes go there for exercise as it is near my house and the whole trail is pretty shady due to the trees. It is very good place to go during the summer. (And yes, I did copy the intro I wrote in the last blog post. I changed 1 word.)

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Hummingbird on a branch. Doesn't this look like one of those Chinese watercolor paintings?

This photo of the American Robin (Turdus migratorius) was taken after sunset in a shady area. I had to use a tripod. No flash was used. Here are the settings used:

Aperture: f/5.6

Exposure: 1/2 second

ISO: 800

Focal Length: 275 mm

 Black-headed Grosbeak (Pheucticus melanocephalus)

 Acorn Woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus)

As I was hiking, I saw a group of acorn woodpeckers flying around and climbing the trees.  

I'm sorry the birds look so tiny in the photos. They were too high up for my camera to get. You can click the photo to view the full size.  

One of them flew down just a bit. Slightly better photo. :D

Not too sure what bird this is due to the motion blur. :/ If you have a guess, please leave me a comment below. 

Western Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma californica)

Thank you for looking at my photos! I hope you have enjoyed viewing them. Please don't forget to share the blog post with your friends and family! More photos are to come. In my vault of photos, I still have a few more Augustin Bernal photos (scenery, flowers, etc...), some front yard photos, Pleasanton Sports Park photos, and my Monterey, Big Sur, and Point Lobus photos! So please check back often for more beautiful photos! I think the one you will be looking forward to is my Monterey, Big Sur, and Point Lobos photos because those places are a bit more famous than my nearby regional parks. I will be posting those once I finish posting my other photos. Also, if you want to get notifications when I post up more photos, "Like" us on Facebook or follow me on Twitter and Instagram. These links can also be found on the top of the right sidebar.

Fremont Central Park

Sometimes, I may repost a few pictures I have posted before. I shouldn't use the same picture twice in two posts in a row.

Today the pictures are from Fremont Central Park located at Fremont, California, USA. The lake you see is called Lake Elizabeth. I may have named some of the animals wrong. If I did, please correct me in the comments below.

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A beautiful sunset at Fremont Central Park

A Black-crowned Night-Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax). This type of heron is nocturnal. I usually take walls at Central Park in the morning, but I was busy that day and I went close to sunset and I saw this bird. :) Early isnt' always good. You can only find this bird at night since it is nocturnal.

Last 4 pictures are house sparrows (Passer domesticus)

Sometimes, if you look closely, you'll spot a tiny turtle somewhere. :)

Lots of squirrels at Fremont Central Park. They are usually fat too. A lot of people feed them. In this picture the squirrel is eating a piece of cracker I gave. The weird thing is, I like feed the same group of squirrels everyday. I think they recognize me now. Even when I don't have anything in my hand (sometimes I don't bring treats) they'd come over and look up. HAHA Cute. :D

The killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) is a medium-sized plover. Where the killdear is standing, usually you can see water. The reason you see land in this picture is because workers have drained part of the lake to build a BART (Bay Area Rapid Transportation something like a lightrail) extension.

Red-winged Blackbird

Tree swallows can be seen quite often at Fremont Central Park and some regional parks around the Bay Area because of the nest box projects found around the parks. Children and adults build these nest boxes to help the survival of these birds.

Western grebe (Aechmophorus occidentalis)

I couldn't have named all these wildlife's names myself. I had help from the following sources:

• Tom Grey
• Bay Area Hiker