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A bluebird spotted on a walk around the neighborhood.

A small blue bird with an orange belly perched on a bundle of cables running diagonally across the frame, its body pointing left and its head pointing right.

A small blue bird with an orange belly perched on a bundle of cables running diagonally across the frame, its body and head pointing left.

A #bluebird spotted on a walk around the neighborhood. #birds #nature

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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Western Bluebird

A Western #Bluebird spotted last week.

#nature #birds

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Hawthorn flowers. In this area they start blooming in winter and keep going thrown spring.

Close-up of several clusters of small pink flowers and buds against a background of green leaves.

Hawthorn Flowers. In this area they start blooming in winter and keep going thrown spring.

#florespondence

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Caution thrown to the wind.

A grayscale photo of a black face mask hanging by one loop from one of several bare branches in front of a cinder block wall.

Caution thrown to the wind.

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Breakdown

Breakdown. #road #potholes #cracks

Breakdown.

#road #potholes #cracks

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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.

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Goldfinches in sunlight, house finches in silhouette.

Two bright yellow birds in a tree with bare branches, next to a large cluster of dropped leaves.

Several small birds in a tree with bare branches, all in silhouette against a blue sky.

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.)

#birds #nature #finches

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Jacaranda canopy

Looking up a tree branches covered with tiny green leaves, showing bits of blue sky.

Looking at tree branches from the side, covered with tiny leaves, some green, some yellow.

#Jacaranda canopy, first #LookingUp and then from the side. In the same park as the previous shot. #trees #green #nature

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Monarch of the Pine

A bright orange-and-black butterfly perched on a pine branch covered with green needles in sunlight, its wings half-open.

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!

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Blinking Squirrel

A squirrel with yellow-brown fur up in a tree, looking toward the camera with its tail down, eyes closed and its head blurry.

The same squirrel, yellow-brown fur up in a tree, looking toward the camera with its tail down, but now its eyes are open and its head clear.

I took so many photos of this #squirrel trying to get a good shot yesterday that I caught it blinking.

#nature #animals

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Quarter moon

Quarter #moon

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Distant Snow. (I already used the “Far Snows” caption.)

Distant Snow. (I already used the "Far Snows" caption.) #mountains #trees #snowline

Distant Snow. (I already used the “Far Snows” caption.) #mountains #trees #snowline

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Winter bee and flower spotted today.

Winter #bee and #flower spotted today.

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Another Fiery Skipper from the first spring of the pandemic

Another #FierySkipper from the first spring of the pandemic.

#butterfly #nature

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A Fiery Skipper butterfly spotted last summer.

Looking through photos I somehow missed posting before. Here's a #FierySkipper #butterfly spotted last summer. #nature

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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)

Flickr album: Flooded Park

Top level of a playground structure and the bar holding up a swing set rising out of water, along with palm trees and some other tree that's lost its leaves for winter.

Looking down a grassy slope toward a lake, which has gazebo rooftops and trees sticking out of it. A lone figure walks along the shore.

A park bench near a couple of trees, one with all its leaves still green and the other with a few mostly yellow. A sidewalk runs in front of the bench, downhill, and into a lake, where you can the backs of two more benches sticking out of the water.

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Double Pigeon

Call your doctor if you experience double pigeon.

#birds #nature #pigeon

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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.

#hawk #birds #RedTailedHawk

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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

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