Stow Lake Fauna

During Spring Saturday mornings at Golden Gate Park's Stow Lake...

...a group called San Francisco Nature Education has set up a battery of telescopes from 10AM to 1PM...

...where you can watch Great Blue Herons tending to newly hatched chicks in nests high in the trees.

You could also watch a cormorant drying its feathers by spreading its wings while perched on a log...

...along with a hawk and a crow fighting it out above the trees.

We walked around Strawberry Island in the middle of the lake, with its manufactured waterfall...

...which is a perfect background for a pose.

Canadian geese have recently returned to the Bay Area in droves, and Stow Lake is no exception.

My favorite creatures were the turtles...

...worshiping the sun.