Sightings: Bobcat, surfing dolphin and more (19-pic photo gallery)

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This 19-picture photo gallery includes record fish, bobcats, gray fox, a coyote with prey, wild turkeys, bald eagles, a dolphin surfing and whale spouting. In short, sightings have been amazing the past two weeks. The teeter-totter effect of weather this winter – flooding rains in December, drought in January – has ignited great wildlife sightings and a few record fish in the Bay Area and across Northern California. December’s big rains spurred vegetation and raised and churned lakes and streams. That was followed by clear weather, crisp in the morning, warm in the afternoons, for weeks on end. In the short term, the settled conditions has set off fish, wildlife [...]

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