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Indignant Chickadee
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Interested in interactions between birds, plants and insects. Birder. Writer. Professionally moonlighting as California native plant grower; native tree planter.
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While birdwatching this morning, this guy just sat on a post nearby for about 15 minutes, just eating and contemplating. It was in a undervisited preserve and I suspect that he usually has his special lunch spot to himself.
A chubby Caliifornia ground squirrel sits upright on on a wooden post holding something to his mouth. Looks like he's eating a sandwich on his lunch break. Same ground squirrel on the same post just staring out into space.
September 2, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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It just took a bath under the nursery sprinklers.
An oak titmouse bird, small and grey, with a cheeky turn of its head and looking wet, is sitting on a plant nursery sign that says 'Gaultheria shallon, salal'
July 4, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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California natives in bloom at Sonoma Developmental Center and Sonoma Valley Regional Park: Limnanthes douglasii; Lithophragma affine; Lomatium californicum; and Lupinus nanus.
Dense wildflower blooms of flower with yellow centers and white tips. Delicate white flower with five petals. Compound umbels of small yellow flowers on long stalks. Spike of flowers with puple-blue flowers.
April 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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#handsoff
Protest sign reading "If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night" - Angela Davis Protest sign reading: Hands off - our healthcare, our veterans, our public servants, our retirement, our schools, our scientists
April 6, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Santa Rosa, CA
Signs saying Resit! Persist! Repeat! and win! and Liberation from Trump not our allies. Sign saying Diversity is what makes America great. Beware of Dog sign changed to read Beware of Doge. Sign saying "I've Seen Better Cabinets at IKEA"
April 6, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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It is 'scrub jays are nesting, give them everything they want - or else' season.
Profile shot of a bird with blue feathers, a white neck and chin and a black around its eyes. It is looking off into the distance. The same blue and white bird but this time it s head it turned and is eyeing the camera.
March 23, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Fortunate to spend the day yesterday around migratory birds in the Sacramento Valley. Love both the openness and the way the silence is only interrupted by the calls of Sandhill Cranes, Greater White-fronted Geese, and Snow Geese.
A line of seven Sandhill Cranes flying together. They fill the shot and you can see their red-masked faces. A flock of thousands of Snow Geese, some on the ground and some taken to the air to create a cloud of white with splashes of black.
January 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Getting mildly excited about that first crack. This is my foray into growing California buckeyes (Aesculus californica) on my own. They will be used for open space and restoration projects.
Photo of the corner of a seed flat with about 8 buckeye seeds visible. The seeds are half-submerged in dirt and perlite; they are brown and gleaming and a bit smaller than a tennis ball. One has a thin crack in its side.
December 15, 2024 at 8:26 PM
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September 29, 2024 at 12:12 AM
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Leafcutters doing some beautiful work on my Cornus glabrata.
Close-up of brown dogwood leaves with large rounded gaps at the edges that are characteristic of the work of a leaf cutter bee. Another close-up of a brown dogwood leaf with large rounded gaps at the edges that are characteristic of the work of a leaf cutter bee. More leaves with these patterns are seen in the background.
June 11, 2024 at 2:33 PM
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Big beautiful bee boy. He's allowed to rob all the nectar he likes in my yard.
A fuzzy blond bee (male Valley Carpenter) grasping a white salvia flower while sticking its mouth into its base. Side view of a male Valley Carpenter bee (big, fuzzy and orangey-yellow) about to rob nectar from the white flower of a Salvia greggii.
May 25, 2024 at 5:41 AM
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At Palo Alto Baylands on Thursday counting California gull nests (based on the number of eggs and/or chicks—with one cheeky chick trying to confuse us).
Two speckled eggs in a nest. Two speckled chicks in a nest (fuzzy light grey with black spots). A speckled egg with a tiny beak and some damp feathers protruding from it as it breaks open.
May 12, 2024 at 1:29 AM
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Even with closed petals, this California native violet (Viola ocellata) was quite charming—at ACR's Bouverie Preserve.
A closeup of a violet with closed petals. They are dark pink on top and white on the bottom.
May 12, 2024 at 1:22 AM
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My first Calypso bulbosa (calypso orchid) of the season (and first time I have photographed one)! For comparison, an Ophrys apifera (bee orchid) at Minsmere, Suffolk last year, which was my first proper introduction to a wild orchid.
Close up of a pinkish-purple flower. There are six petals on the top and a pouch below. An orchid with pink petals. The pouch is a reddish-brown and looks a bit like the body of a bee.
March 29, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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Reskeet with an animal picture you took that could be an album cover
Four large dogs sitting on the beach. All are looking at the camera.
February 3, 2024 at 1:33 AM
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When it's cold and grey and rainy, but you still got to eat.
A photo of very wet Northern Flicker perched on a persimmon tree, with ripe fruit that it has been eating. It's a grey day and the bird's feathers are damp from the rain.
January 14, 2024 at 6:04 PM
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I swear it IS their thing. I often now look for hidden coyotes in my photos. This one sauntered through in the background (Woodbridge, 2019), marking nearly every clump of bunch grass and doing a dust-kicking dance at each, sometimes looking straight at me while doing so.
An in-focus coyote walking jauntily in the background through an open field with out-of-focus Sandhill Cranes in the foreground and more cranes in the distance.
December 30, 2023 at 9:06 PM
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Without downloading any new pics, what's your energy going into 2024?
Pug mix being held while wrapped in a towel, looking indignant after having a bath she clearly did not approve of.
December 30, 2023 at 5:02 AM