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Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge – California

Images of Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge – Central California, taken in May 2019.

Created in 1985 to protect the habitat of the California Condor, Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge is off limits to visitors except for the roads that run through the park.

Since this refuge is just a few miles south of Corrizo Plains National Monument I made it a point to visit in hopes of catching a glimpse of the endangered condors. I slowly drove through the park twice, once in the morning and once in the early evening but had no luck. I did see a coyote, a few quail and a lot of ground squirrels but again, no condors.

I did have one interesting animal encounter while in Klipstein Canyon where I stopped to get a picture of some California Poppies, as I approached I noticed something moving below the area I was focused on; I looked in the hole where I saw the movement and it was a large Wolf Spider which are known to take over dens created by other animals. After I got my flower shot I backed away and the spider came back out of the hole and I was able to get some good images. Now this guy was about three inches of hairy body and legs and I normally don’t want anything to do with these things but I am on a wildlife refuge and they are wildlife…
Grass covered hills in Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge
Grass covered hills in Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge 		A Quail in the grasses of Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge
A Quail in the grasses of Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge		 Sunlight bathes the hills above Klipstein Canyon in Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge
Sunlight bathes the hills above Klipstein Canyon in Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge		 California Ground Squirrels outside of their dens in Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge
California Ground Squirrels outside of their dens in Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge		 Hills along the Klipstein Canyon Road in Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge
Hills along the Klipstein Canyon Road in Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge
Flowers on a hillside in Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge
Flowers on a hillside in Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge		 A dead tree on a steep canyon wall in Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge
A dead tree on a steep canyon wall in Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge		 A California Poppy in Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge
A California Poppy in Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge		 Flowers going to seed in Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge
Flowers going to seed in Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge		 Large Wolf Spider outside of its den with prey in the foreground in Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge
Large Wolf Spider outside of its den with prey in the foreground in Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge
Flowers in Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge
Flowers in Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge		 Hills along the Klipstein Canyon Road in Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge
Hills along the Klipstein Canyon Road in Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge		 California Ground Squirrel in Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge
California Ground Squirrel in Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge		 Rolling hills in Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge
Rolling hills in Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge		 Flowers in the hills of Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge
Flowers in the hills of Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge

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