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Bladderpod
Garland Daisy
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)
This bee was crawling into one of these trumpet shaped flowers after another.
This bee was crawling into one of these trumpet shaped flowers after another. I finally decided to aim at the flower it had just climbed into, then wait for it to leave and see if I could catch it. Amazingly, it worked!
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
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
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
Two crops of the same photo taken on a quick walk around the block…
Two crops of the same photo taken on a quick walk around the block. I really like the landscape crop showing the fiery skipper as it flies from one flower to the next…but after I cropped it, I noticed the bee also flying in the foreground of the original, and I just had to find a way to keep them both in the frame and still draw attention to them.
#nature #butterflies #bees #photo
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Skipper Close-Up (iNat)
Realized this isn’t iceplant. INat suggests it’s in the Kleinia genus, but I’m not sure beyond that.
Follow-up: The plant is Blue Chalksticks.
Fiery Skipper (blue chalksticks)
Western Gull (white, LB fountain)
Western Gull (gray, LB fountain)
A common buckeye spotted on a walk around the block
Fiery Skipper (ragged)
There were two of these butterflies, the other in much better shape in terms of both wings and color, but that one was too far away to capture a picture with my phone.
