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Mallard (Wilderness Park)
Russian Thistles (small, in wood chips)
Grasses
Woodsorrels
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!
California Scrub-Jay (bike path)
I could hear an unfamiliar bird from halfway down the block and went looking for it, then finally found this in a tree. It stayed put longer than I expected, then flew off to the next tree over.
Found this shot looking through photos from my old phone. It’s from the outdoor part of a mall.
Found this shot looking through photos from my old phone. It's from the outdoor part of a mall.
Common Buckeye
This particular corner seems popular with butterflies. Just about every time I walk by, I see at least two or three.
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.
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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.
Marine Blue (on grass & clover)
blue-eyed grasses
House Finch
Fan Palms
Nightshades
Great Heron (at Polliwog Park)
As I recall, this heron was standing on the off-limits section of the pond shoreline, which the park’s website refers to as a “wildlife refuge” but isn’t particularly big.
