Finally settled on this Gulf Fritillary

Finally settled on this #GulfFritillary #Butterfly as my best #photo on Flickr for the year. I like some of the other photos better for where I was, or what I was trying to do with the shot, but I think this came out better overall.

Other candidates include a squirrel, autumn trees, and black-and-white sunbeams, but this was the most attention-catching at a first glance.

Hazy Shade of SoCal Winter (B&W edit)

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I keep thinking about posting my Flickr photo of a family of mastodons at the …

I keep thinking about posting my Flickr photo of a family of mastodons at the La Brea tar pits (statues, of course) on the bird site to see whether it gets marked as “sensitive,” but I don’t feel much like logging back in over there right now, so here’s the photo:

La Brea Tar Pits

(Previously posted at @kelsonv@photog.social )

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Spot the #lizard! (Seriously, I couldn’t tell if it was in frame at the time I took the photo.) #nature

A whole bunch of wood chips on the ground. There is a light brown lizard blending in with them.

Spot the <a href=”https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/lizard?src=hash&#8221; title=”#lizard” class=”u-url hashtag” rel=”external nofollow noopener”>#lizard</a>!<br />
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(Seriously, I couldn't tell if it was in frame at the time I took the photo.)<br />
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<a href=”https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/nature?src=hash&#8221; title=”#nature” class=”u-url hashtag” rel=”external nofollow noopener”>#nature</a>

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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.

Close-up of a small light brown bird with black wings, a white head with black stripes on it, and a yellow beak, perched in a sparse, dry bush.

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. 🤦

#nature #persistence #WhiteCrownedSparrow

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