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Falcon City
March 06, 2009 by Jessica Taekman
In early spring, downtown San Francisco’s office workers are treated to quite an air show outside their office windows: peregrine falcons!
About
Bay Area native Jessica Taekman spends her spare time hiking, surfing, and baking.
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Gray Whale Migration
February 06, 2009 by Jessica Taekman
Now is the time to see gray whales migrating along the California coast and maybe even appearing inside the Bay.
Down on the Farm
October 01, 2008 by Jessica Taekman
There are many local farms in the Bay Area where families can visit to learn about how food is grown and raised and meet the farmers who make it happen.
Book Review: Watching Giants
October 01, 2008 by Jessica Taekman
by Elin Kelsey, UC Press, December 2008, 304 pages, $24.95
Long-lived, slow to reproduce, and often hidden beneath ocean waves, …
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Whales at the Farallon Islands
July 11, 2008 by Jessica Taekman
Picture hungry tourists swarming around an all-you-can-eat buffet. Only the tourists are 100 feet long and weigh almost 200,000 pounds. These are blue whales, the largest animals ever, and they’ve come to feast on some of the tiniest animals on the planet: millions upon millions of tiny shrimplike krill.
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Book Review: Birds of Napa County
October 01, 2007 by Jessica Taekman
Birds of Napa County, by Herman Heinzel, Heyday Books, 2006, 132 pages, $12.95
www.heydaybooks.com
The common image of Napa County …
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Holy Mola!
October 01, 2007 by Jessica Taekman
Weighing in at almost 5,000 pounds, measuring over ten feet across, infested with scores of parasites, carrying more eggs than any other vertebrate, and shaped like a giant dinner plate, the giant ocean sunfish (Mola mola) is a creature defined by superlatives.
Book Review: Raptors of California
October 01, 2007 by Jessica Taekman
Raptors of California, by Hans and Pam Peeters, University of California Press, 2005, 305 pages, $17.95
Here in California, we …
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Long Line Fishing Update
October 01, 2007 by Jessica Taekman
On August 10, 2007, the California Coastal Commission unanimously voted to deny a fishing permit to allow experimental long-line fishing …
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Kayaking Resources
July 01, 2007 by Jessica Taekman
The San Francisco Bay Area and Central California coast are full of wonderful places to explore in a kayak, from …
