Quail ~ Santa Cruz California
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Beautiful flurry of pink and blue! It was a magical little bird, more so because in 30 years it is the only Western Bluebird I have seen in Southern Humboldt California #Birds #birdphotography #nature #birdsinmybackyard #wildlife #CaliforniaBirds #Humboldt #Birdwatching

'Long-Billed Curlew' down by the harbour in Eureka California.
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Gorgeous Northern Flicker. So glad I remembered to take my camera to the outhouse!
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Become an Entomologists! There are 7 mammologists for every mammal but only one entomologist for every 425 described species of insect & 4-6 million species waiting to be described. The importance of the amateur entomologist cannot be underestimated! #insects #bugs www.amentsoc.org/insects/gett...

Wild Turkeys gobbling on my dirt road. They have gorgeous luminescent blue heads! Pretty sure that is Gerald Primeaux Sr singing a peyote song & my new puppy singing along too. #Birds #Thanksgiving #NAC

There is strength and peace in resisting that bargain!

Beautiful flurry of pink and blue! It was a magical little bird, more so because in 30 years it is the only Western Bluebird I have seen in Southern Humboldt California. #addBirder

One of the most outrageous and amazing things I have seen brought to you from #Nature! This is a brinicle forming, a.k.a ice finger of death. It freezes everything it touches. A brinicle is a frozen column of ice inside water. Find out more and how it was filmed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtQh...

I have sleepy kittens! I am so lucky and so are they!!

A Fawn in my garden. I am so lucky! #wildlife #nature

Rupert postulates over a kidney in a tube to a captive audience... All sorts of nefarious goings on out in the workshop. #Art

I finally made myself a garden gate! Nate made the outer spiral frame and blacksmithed the hinges.

I am the couch!

Industrial Dream Catcher - made with large heavy machinery gear wheel, motorcycle sprocket center, woven web made of copper wire and threaded nuts, and old wooden window weights in place of hanging feathers.
Artist - B'anna Federico