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Carl S. Gutekunst
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Dad, husband, coder, infosec wonk, photographer, genealogist. San Francisco South Bay. Pictures are my own. He/Him. Proud member of the Woke Mob.
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A new addition to my “birds on the telephone pole” collection. Crows, scrub jays, mockingbirds, and hawks perch here; woodpeckers love climbing the pole. Mourning doves often perch on the wires. But this is the first I've seen one on the pole.
#BackyardBirds #MourningDove #Birds #BirdPhotography
A mourning dove sits on top of a utility pole. The background is blue sky and the gnarled branches of an old oak. A mourning dove sits on top of a utility pole. The background is blue sky and the gnarled branches of an old oak.
October 13, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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One proud bird.

#BackyardBirds #AmericanCrow #Crow #Birds #BirdPhotography
An American Crow — a medium sized bird that's solid black from beak to tail feathers — looks around while standing on top of a wood utility pole.
October 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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A little collective “me time” for the mourning doves after our first rain.

#BackyardBirds #Birds #BirdPhotography #MourningDove #Autumn
Five tan and gray-colored mourning doves perch high up on a telephone line that runs diagonally from lower left to upper right. The birds and telephone wire are against a backdrop of a very old oak tree that is covered with orange lichen.
October 2, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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My first #Honeybee of 2025! One of dozens on the #Rosemary this morning after the storm.

I'm sure they've been out there awhile; I've just been sulking too much to get out and take pictures.

#BloomScrolling #Pollinators #Flowers
A European honey bee explores the tiny, rather scruffy-looking light purple flowers of a rosemary bush. There are many little flowers, and the succulent-like leaves of rosemary in the background.
February 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Jack and Jill survey their domain. This is the third year they've taken over the three adjacent back yards on our corner, from which I infer their nest has to be nearby, perhaps even in this old oak tree.

#BackyardBirds #ScrubJay #Birds #BirdPhotography
Two California Scrub Jays — large songbirds with a white body, azure tail, back, and wings, a dark blue head, and very stout black beak — perch in the scraggly winter branches of a large oak tree.
February 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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For those who celebrate. 🙂
A shaggy barred owl (who is none the less superb) is perched on a high branch in a shaggy tree in a forest.
February 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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A rather scruffy but also quite determined nasturtium, which randomly showed up in a coconut-husk planter that I'd kinda forgotten about.
#BloomScrolling #Flowers #FlowerPhotography #Nasturtium
Two circular yellow flowers with red centers bloom from a plant of circular green leaves and naked-looking red stems.
January 18, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Another of my wife's plants on the front porch that seems happy to bloom in winter.
#BloomScrolling #Flowers #FlowerPhotography
A plant with broad light-green leaves produces a number of five-petaled petunia-like blossoms.
January 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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My wife's geranium looks very nice right now. 🙂 She has many plants on the front porch, but this is the only one blooming.
#BloomScrolling #Geranium #Flowers #FlowerPhotography
Three intense red flowers with flat ragged-edged split petals and curly red stamens in their centers burst out from a head of 8-pointed-star shaped red and green leaves.
January 12, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Yuletide Camelia, spied in my brother-in-law's front yard on New Years Day.
#BloomScrolling #Flowers #FlowerPhotography #Camelia
A red flower with five nearly circular petals and a very busy cluster of dozens of intense yellow stamens in its center.
January 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Yes! I have them along our back fence, both in the ground and in planters mounted on the fence. And the reseeding is great! (These pics from from last March.)
A spray of split-petal nasturtiums growing in a circular brown planter. A small groundcover expanse of split-petal orange/red and yellow/orange nasturtiums surrounded by bright green leaves.
January 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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I love climbing nasturtium, but they grow like weeds which means I really need to keep them neat so the yard guy doesn't rip them out.
#BloomScrolling #Nasturtium #Flowers #FlowerPhotography
A single yellow/orange split-petal climbing nasturtium blossom pokes its head out from its bed of dark green leaves.
January 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Another sign of things to come, although this double hibiscus should be fully open in a day or two. (The roses won't start blooming for another three months, if history holds.)
#BloomScrolling #Flowers #Hibiscus #DoubleHibiscus
A large orange/red flower bud, just starting to open, stands on the end of a woody stalk with bright green leaves.
January 7, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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There is a tradition that narcissus blooming before New Year's Day indicates good luck for that year. Ours has been blooming earlier and earlier every year, which I don't think is what they meant. But the flowers still make me happy when they bloom.
#BloomScrolling #Narcissus #Flowers
A row of white flowers, some open, some just budding. The individual blooms have 6 ellipse-shaped petals, with little white cups full of pollen in the middle. It's winter and the background is very dark green.
January 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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The first sign of Things to Come: Budding branches on one of my rose bushes.
#BloomScrolling #Flowers #Roses
A dead-looking woody branch, marked with angry-looking thorns, with small tufts of new growth in greens and reds bursting from its sides.
January 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Cabbage white butterfly on my wife's gerberas. Late fall.
#BloomScrolling #Flowers #Butterflies #Pollinators
A cabbage white butterfly stands with its wings partially open on a bright orange gerbera flower. The flower stands on a bulky green stem. There are other orange flowers out of focus in the background.
January 5, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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A classic nativity scene, with a very large housecat in the manger.
December 13, 2024 at 10:00 PM
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Top of the morning, BlueSky folks. Just checking out the feed, looking around, and checking the threat landscape. Much like this oak titmouse. 🙂 #BackyardBirds
An oak titmouse ­— a small songbird with a gray head and back, lighter gray breast, and distinctive gray crest — looks sidewize at the camera while perched on a bird feeder.
November 14, 2024 at 7:09 PM