covid-adjacent/masks

I’ve seen several discarded face #masks by the side of the road while walking around the neighborhood.

I don’t understand: They’re not easy enough to find that you can just toss one and replace it on a whim. What’s the story? Did someone rip another person’s mask off and throw it in the dirt as a form of bullying? Throw their own mask away in frustration?

More observations on mask trends in my neighborhood (including banks!) at Where Everyone Wears a Mask

A face mask discarded on the ground.

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Indian Hawthorn flowers in bloom

Indian Hawthorn flowers in bloom. The empty lot is the greenbelt under a set of transmission wires. Hawthorns will grow as bushes, and make up a *lot* of hedges around here, but they can also be trained to grow upward and pruned into trees. There are several spaced along this block at the same stage of growth.

#flowers #photo #spring

Indian Hawthorn flowers in bloom

Indian Hawthorn flowers in bloom

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Seeing a lot of these signs in front of restaurants

Seeing a lot of these signs in front of restaurants when I go walking in the neighborhood.

Most people have been really good at maintaining social distancing while out. The group in the distance seemed to all be one family.

Except for runners. Runners passing me from behind (where I can’t see them to move out of the way myself) have a 50/50 track record of dodging around vs. just zooming past at a distance of a foot.

kelsonv: Seeing a lot of thes

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Some more house finches and a hummingbird.

Some more house finches and a hummingbird. Hummingbirds always look weird to me when they’re perched.

#photo #birds #finch #HouseFinch #hummingbird #nature

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Finch (in grass) on Flickr

I must have seen over a dozen house finches on a very short walk today. I assume there’s a nest or several in the area.

Hummingbird on iNaturalist
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Finch (in grass) on iNaturalist

A dove spotted this morning.

A dove spotted this morning. I just walked around the neighborhood and most of the birds I spotted were on cables like this.

Might be a mourning dove, turtle dove, or collared dove. If you happen to know, feel free to chime in at #iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/40535563

#birds #photo #dove

White bird on cables

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Finally recovered enough from the flu to get out for a walk in the neighborhood (while that’s still an option).

Finally recovered enough from the flu to get out for a walk in the neighborhood (while that’s still an option).

I think this first bird (possibly a goldfinch?) was trying to practice social distancing, though the crow in the third photo seems to be doing a better job. The house finch was such a bright red that I thought it had to be another kind of bird until I looked at the photos.

#photo #birds #nature #finch #HouseFinch #goldfinch #crow

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House Finch on iNaturalist

Another shot of wildflowers from the same hike

Another shot of #wildflowers from the same hike, closer to the parts of the marsh with water. The purple/white flowers are wild radish.

This one works better when viewed at a larger size. I think I like the yellow fiddlenecks shot better because it works at a smaller size too.

#photo #wildflowers #nature

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I decided to see what I could do with my phone camera, which mostly meant landscapes and plants.

When I parked for a hike at the marsh preserve, I discovered that I hadn’t actually put my camera in my backpack as I’d intended. So I decided to see what I could do with my phone camera, which mostly meant landscapes and plants.

#flowers #plants #photo

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