Tag: nature
Splitgill Mushroom
Desert Cottontail
Great Blue Heron
Redhead and Ring-Necked Ducks
Northern Shoveler
European Starling
Red-Tailed Hawk (on transmission tower, late Jan.)
I found this monarch flitting from bush to bush along the street.
I haven’t seen many #butterflies at all since winter hit, and figured the #monarch migration had long since passed further south, but I found this one flitting from bush to bush along the street.
House Sparrow
Hummingbirds
A Black Phoebe in the rose garden (SCBG)
Starling
Say’s Phoebe: Saw this birb on a suburban bike path…
Saw this #birb on a suburban bike path today. Some kind of Phoebe, apparently https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/37541271
Red-Tailed Hawk (on transmission tower, early Jan.)
And this hawk(?) is definitely *not* a birb…but I saw it on the same bike path in the middle of the suburbs. It landed on a transmission tower and looked around for a few minutes before flying off. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/37541270 #birds #nature
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Hawkspotting on K2R
This solitary hawk(?) landed in the scaffolding of a transmission tower above a suburban bike path, and stayed there, looking around, while I walked closer to it. After a few minutes, it flew off to another tower.
Black Phoebe silhouette. I could *hear* the bird singing, but had to really look before …
Black Phoebe silhouette.
I could *hear* the bird singing, but had to really look before I could finally spot it.
#birds #silhouette #photo #nature #BlackAndWhite
Winter is when we get rain here in California, so even the plants that aren’t irrigated start growing green
Prickly Pears
Fennel
No, squirrel, that’s not a yule log…
No, squirrel, that's not a yule log…
(Spotted on Christmas day before the rainstorm arrived.)