A #bluebird spotted on a walk around the neighborhood. #birds #nature
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I saw one of these birds fly out of a bush, across the trail, and into a tree. I stopped. I waited. I looked, but couldn’t spot it.
I saw one of these #birds fly out of a bush, across the trail, and into a tree. I stopped. I waited. I looked, but couldn’t spot it. I took another, slow, careful step. Another #sparrow flew out of the bush, across the path, and into the tree. I stopped again.
This went on for about FIVE MORE ROUNDS before a couple of them flew into another bush and stopped where I could SEE them!
Then one of them flew off while I was aiming. 🤦
Western Bluebird
Hawthorn flowers. In this area they start blooming in winter and keep going thrown spring.
Hawthorn Flowers. In this area they start blooming in winter and keep going thrown spring.
Caution thrown to the wind.
Breakdown
About as many monarch butterflies in one photo as I’ve seen in the last few years!
From this afternoon’s walk along the greenbelt: About as many monarch butterflies in one photo than I’ve seen in the last few years!
There were a whole bunch of them clustered on a pine branch above the path. I wouldn’t have even seen them, but other people out walking had stopped to check them out.
I was just reading that this year’s overwintering monarch count is up to over 200,000 – a huge improvement over last year’s count of, I kid you not, 1,914. Though still not up to the millions that were regularly seen as recently as the 1990s.
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Blog entry at https://hyperborea.org/journal/2022/01/monarchs/ including links to articles about the monarch count and ways to help the iconic species rebound.
Goldfinches in sunlight, house finches in silhouette.
Goldfinches in sunlight, house finches in silhouette. And there were a bunch of each, just at opposite ends of the park. (I suspect the glob of leaves next to the goldfinches is hiding a nest.)
Jacaranda canopy
#Jacaranda canopy, first #LookingUp and then from the side. In the same park as the previous shot. #trees #green #nature
Monarch of the Pine
Monarch of the Pine
#butterfly #monarch #MonarchButterfly #nature #pines
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Oh, cool, the Flickr post of this photo got featured on Explore!
Blinking Squirrel
I took so many photos of this #squirrel trying to get a good shot yesterday that I caught it blinking.
Quarter moon
Distant Snow. (I already used the “Far Snows” caption.)
Distant Snow. (I already used the “Far Snows” caption.) #mountains #trees #snowline
Winter bee and flower spotted today.
Another Fiery Skipper from the first spring of the pandemic
Another #FierySkipper from the first spring of the pandemic.
A Fiery Skipper butterfly spotted last summer.
Looking through photos I somehow missed posting before. Here's a #FierySkipper #butterfly spotted last summer. #nature
Photos of a local park that doubles as a flood control basin…
A recent news article with photos of a local park that doubles as a flood control basin.
Polliwog Park in Manhattan Beach protects homes by collecting rain runoff
Polliwog Park did what it is designed to do during Thursday’s heavy rain, by collecting rain runoff, and providing food and a resting place for local and migratory water birds.
And some photos I took after storms in 2017 and 2019 (since I can’t exactly go out right now)
Double Pigeon
Call your doctor if you experience double pigeon.
This is why I like carrying around a camera with optical zoom.
This is why I like carrying around a camera with optical zoom. Good luck spotting the hawk in the third photo.
This Say’s Phoebe, unlike the squirrel, was kind (or unconcerned) enough to stay put…
This Say’s Phoebe, unlike the squirrel, was kind (or unconcerned) enough to stay put while I walked around it to get both a better angle and better light. #birds #nature #SaysPhoebe