This wasp stayed on the car windshield for several blocks before it few off.
Tag: nature
Florida Softshell Turtle (Wilderness Park)
I don’t know if these turtles are actually wild or stocked. (I assume the fish are stocked, but the ducks are just visiting!) But this looks like a different type of turtle than the ones I saw on a visit a couple of years later.
Identified on iNaturalist as a Florida Softshell, most likely a released pet.
Tomato (Wilderness Park)
The “wilderness park” is popular with schools, so I wouldn’t be surprised if this grew from some kid’s dropped lunch.
Tree Squirrels (Wilderness Park)
Mallard (Wilderness Park)
Russian Thistles (small, in wood chips)
Grasses
Woodsorrels
California Scrub-Jay (bike path)
I could hear an unfamiliar bird from halfway down the block and went looking for it, then finally found this in a tree. It stayed put longer than I expected, then flew off to the next tree over.
Common Buckeye
This particular corner seems popular with butterflies. Just about every time I walk by, I see at least two or three.
Western Honey Bee (on Blue Chalksticks)
The squawking of the feral parakeets
Sometimes I’ll hear the squawking of the feral parakeets that live in town as they fly past. Usually I don’t have a camera with me, but one time I managed to catch four of them flying (not very detailed, as you can see), and once I managed to catch one that had stopped in a palm tree long enough for me to use the zoom lens.
#birds #parakeets #FeralParakeets #parrots #nature #FeralParrots
I heard the squawking and went for my camera, but this is the best I could get. Still, you can at least see the green color and a bit of the red on one of their heads.
After they flew on, I saw a few others diving out of palm trees and wheeling back up in the direction they’d come from.
I’ve seen and heard the feral parakeets before, and managed to get some decent pictures a few weeks ago. I can’t be certain these are the same parakeet species as that one, but it seems likely since they’re introduced.
Previous observation of mitred parakeet: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/26590485
TODO: Combine with this post and others.
Managed to identify the not-iceplant
Managed to identify the not-iceplant. It’s Blue Chalksticks, or Blue Chalk Stick. Either way, it’s remarkably descriptive.
Posted it to iNat even though it’s cultivated landscaping in hopes that the info will help both the AI and human identifiers.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/28958782
#photo #plants #succulents #flowers #nature
Marine Blue (on grass & clover)
blue-eyed grasses
Now that I’ve had more time to look through the photos from this hike, I …
Now that I’ve had more time to look through the photos from this hike, I like this wider crop of the first #MonarchButterfly shot.
#butterflies #nature #jacaranda #photo
House Finch
Fan Palms
Nightshades
Please use iNaturalist responsibly
WARNING: Use of #iNaturalist may lead you to do things like following wasps around with a camera instead of backing away slowly and looking for the nest.
Please use iNaturalist responsibly.
(That said, the wasps showed no signs of aggression and I got some decent photos!)
#nature #wasps #insects #photo
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/28636143
