A spotless lady #beetle, um, spotted on a weed growing by the sidewalk.
Category: PixelFed
I saw a lot of butterflies at Madrona Marsh over the weekend…
Photo taken at: Madrona Marsh Preserve and Nature Center
I saw a lot of #butterflies at #MadronaMarsh over the weekend, including some pale yellow ones and some black ones and even a few monarchs, plus a lot of these white and orange ones. #iNaturalist narrows them down to the Pontia & Hylephila genuses (geni?). #nature
According to biophilic1 on iNaturalist, these are a Checkered White and a Fiery Skipper.
Bzzzzzz!
Bzzzzzz! A honey bee visiting clover flowers in the strip of lawn along the sidewalk. I still can't get over being able to get closeup photos like this using my phone.
Buckeye Butterfly
Buckeye #butterfly spotted in a field near LAX airport. There were a lot of butterflies of at least three types flitting about in the mustard, but this is the only one that stayed still long enough for me to catch a photo.
Network of soap bubbles in a partially-rinsed olive oil bottle.
Wild oats by the side of the road.
Ground cover. The jacaranda flowers haven’t covered the ground yet, but they will.
Ground cover.
The #jacaranda #flowers haven’t covered the ground yet, but they will.
For now, the oxalis has most of the ground to itself.
On PixelFed.Social
Woodsorrel on iNaturalist (alternate shot)
House Sparrows on a parking sign
These two sparrows were on the ground as I walked across the driveway, flew up to the sign as I approached, and stayed put just long enough for me to pull out my phone. I swear they took off the moment I clicked the virtual shutter. (Time restricted parking, indeed.)
Breaking through the lines.
Out of service.
Flock
House sparrow in the green belt along a bike path
Drying flowers and iceplant.
Buzzzzzzz…..
No, no, it’s perfectly safe!
It’s ELECTRO-MATIC!
Stonewalled at the South Coast Botanic Garden.
It’s the fabled white rose of the grocery store parking lot!
Apparently this bird is called a dark-eyed junco.
I went a bit overboard with finding whimsical “adventures” for the Flickr panda…
I went a bit overboard with finding #whimsical “adventures” for the Flickr #panda during their planned downtime to disentangle from Yahoo’s datacenter. I think I’ll go with the #coffee mug shot once uploads are working again.
Full 12-photo “Good Panda” gallery on my blog.
Complete Flickr gallery.