My parents' friend Herb Knufken is the great photographer of Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve. The best images in their annual calendar are always his. He has such great photos available because he spends every day in and around the California coast, his telephotos trained on buds in bloom, dolphins in waves and birds in flight. He's been posting a
picture every day for sixteen years! These are just a few from recent weeks: an Annas hummingbird, a belted kingfisher, a pie-billed grebe, Torrey Pines' resident peregrine falcons, a long-billed curlew, a marbled godwit and a yellow rumped warbler blissed out at a Shaw's Agave.