Somewhere between 6-12 of them wandering around the brush and open area at the top of the bluffs near the coast. A lot less nervous than the ones I’ve seen in the city. I was able to get a lot closer.
Images
Flock
beach suncup
Searockets
Fan Palms
A finch that I spotted practically right outside my door a few weeks ago.
A #finch that I spotted practically right outside my door a few weeks ago. I posted an animation made from several of these photos a while back. Here are the best of the still shots, cleaned up a bit.
House sparrow in the green belt along a bike path
evening-primroses
evening primrose family
Clover
European Starling
Fan Palms
A palm tree growing out of a palm tree. It might even be one of its own seeds that got caught between the stumps of the fronds.
There are quite a few plants like this growing out of the palm trees along this street. I’ll have to bring a better camera so I can get some clearer photos.
The Creepiness–Convenience Tradeoff
“As people consider whether to use the new “creepy” technologies, they do a type of cost-benefit analysis weighing the loss of privacy against the benefits they will receive in return.” – @NNgroup
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/creepiness/
House Sparrow: Super-Blurry on a Wire
Perfect example: I posted this super-blurry photo of a bird on a wire across the street, zoomed optically as far as I could and then just cropped. Within 15 minutes, 4 people had identified it as not just a sparrow, but specifically a house sparrow!
Meanwhile the entry for the horseweed from last week still hasn’t had anyone stop in to confirm or correct the ID.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/26366528
Going to miss this place
Photo taken at: Yellow Fever
Going to miss this place. Stopped by @yellowfevereats for a final Kona Bowl today.
Rocketship park (one of very few remaining parks with this sort of climbing structure). I …
Rocketship park (one of very few remaining parks with this sort of climbing structure). I stopped to grab coffee and realized I’d been able to see the shopping center from the park…so it stood to reason I ought to be able to see the park from the shopping center.
Yep!
I think the #BlackAndWhite version works a bit better on this.
#photos #park #rocketship
Drying flowers and iceplant.
Buzzzzzzz…..
Flax-leaved horseweed, according to iNaturalist’s identification engine.
Flax-leaved horseweed, according to iNaturalist’s identification engine.
Since the idea is to catalog nature, not gardens, I’ve found myself taking lots of photos of weeds. Some that I know, like dandelions, and a lot that I don’t.
Unfortunately, while observations of birds almost instantly attract other users who are ready to fine-tune the ID, people don’t seem as interested in identifying plants.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/26041661
On Photog.Social
On iNaturalist
Fellow iNaturalist user @sohkamyung recommended this forum thread on photo-taking recommendations by taxon
@rubah suggests tagging fediverse pictures with #plantID or #PlantIdentification.
