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| Sea Lions Resting on Seal Rocks |
Someone on a local birding list reported seeing harbor seals at Seal Rocks, so I brought along my binoculars today to see if I could find them. On the farthest of the Seal Rocks I did see the sea lions shown above, but no harbor seals. If the report was a case of mistaken identity, I'm still grateful to the reporter for coaxing me to bring the binoculars, as I'm not sure I'd have noticed the sea lions without them.
Since I was down there anyway, I fired off a few frames from the Cliff House overlook.
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| A Windy Sunday at the Beach |
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| Brown Pelican Drifting Into The Wind |
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| Western Gull Fly-by |
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| The waves were kind of terrible, but this guy was making the most of what was available. |
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| This Western gull was hanging in the wind, and only very slowly dropping down to finally land on top of the Cliff House. |
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| Different Wave, Same Surfer |
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| A young Heermann's gull flies by. |
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| I thought it would be easy to look up the identity of this caterpillar, but I was stumped. I'll update with an ID if I find out what it is. It was munching a small plant growing out of the sidewalk between Grandview Park and the Rocky Outcrop at 14th & Ortega. [UPDATE: The iNaturalist folks put it in the Arctiini tribe of tiger moths.] |
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