animals like brush rabbits, desert cottontails, california ground squirrels which are just absolutely everywhere out here. and birds - the rabbit up here, i have been watching him chew on stalks of green vegetation. now you think about a rabbit doing that, you maybe think about a ground squirrel doing that, but you don't usually think about things like the white-crowned sparrows that are over here acting very uncharacteristic for white-crowned sparrows for what we're used to in the east, or the california towhees that are everywhere, feeding on green vegetation, eating flowers, eating leaves. taking advantage of all the nutrients that are flushing into those plants during this odd time of the year. it's still winter, everything is green and everything is moving and wildlife, it's just everywhere. the habitat here at the coast is shrub land. it's called chaparral. here, we call it soft chaparral, or coastal sage scrub. dense, california sagebrush and true sages give it the name, and it's amazing scent. this is a place pleasant to all of the senses. >>bird chirping. >>that sound is ofte