Posted in Birding, Nature, Photography, Travel, tagged czech republic, prague, river, vltava on 15 January, 2010| 6 Comments »
The Vltava River (AKA the Moldau if you’re in Germany) flows through the middle of Prague, bisecting the historic district. On the east side are Old Town, the Jewish Quarter, and New Town, and on the west are Lesser Town and Prague Castle.
The Vltava River, from Vyšehrad
Posted in Birding, Photography, Travel, tagged art nouveau, cemetery, czech republic, prague, vysehrad on 28 September, 2009| 10 Comments »
Next to the imposing Basilica of St. Peter and Paul in Vyšehrad lies the compact, pretty Vyšehrad hřbitov (Vyšehrad Cemetery). Open from roughly 9-5, it´s a must-visit for anyone in the area due to both its lovely tombstones, and the fact that a number of notable Czechs are buried there.
Vyšehrad cemetery
Posted in Architecture, Birding, Photography, Travel, tagged czech republic, gothic, prague, vysehrad on 23 September, 2009| 18 Comments »
Since I was in Prague for half business, half pleasure, and we wound up visiting many of its popular sites more than once, instead of doing a timeline-based travelogue, I will instead dedicate each post in this series to an area or monument in Prague.
Please forgive in advance any funny typos involving y or z – I have my keyboard set to Czech so I can type the accents, and which also swaps y and z 🙂
Basilica of St. Peter and Paul, Vyšehrad
We’ll start with the lovely outlying neighborhood of Vyšehrad, where I spent much of the trip, since that’s where the company-paid hotel was.
Posted in Birding, Nature, Photography on 4 September, 2009| 8 Comments »
Tuesday, 16 June 2009:
I swung by the Radio Road ponds after work, ummm, 2.5 months ago (what? me behind on photos? nahh!), hopeful to see a reported Caspian Tern fledgling.
Northern Pintail / Anas acuta
Posted in Birding, Nature, Photography, Travel on 2 September, 2009| 10 Comments »
Thursday, 30 April 2009 (continued from here):
After our fun little hike at Tahquitz Canyon, we had a delicious breakfast at Chubby’s, where I ordered a bacon flight consisting of 5 different types of bacon (yeah!), and then checked out and headed a half-dozen miles south to Palm Desert/Indian Wells, where we visited the Living Desert, a combination zoo (containing only un-releasable animals), wildlife oasis, and state-of-the-art animal hospital. A docent at Big Morongo Canyon the day before had recommended the Living Desert both as an interesting zoo and garden, as well as a good place for wild bird-watching, so we were interested to see what all was here.
Black-crowned Night Heron in the aviary
Adam Paul 