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| Earth Texture: What Is It? |
This one's probably too easy, but we'll see.
The timing of the rain has been pretty good for my walks and bike rides, not to mention our garden, which recently got some new plants. I would estimate that more than fifty percent of the plants I buy for the back yard do not last. They get eaten, they don't like the soil, they get too little sun, they get destroyed by squirrels, and so on. So I notice and appreciate when something takes, especially if it's something the hummingbirds like. That's why I bought three more firecracker plants (Cuphea ignea) last weekend.
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| It was good to see a snowy egret back at Ocean Beach, hunting in the shallows. It seems like it's been a while since I saw one down there. |
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| A flock of maybe a couple dozen whimbrels was also foraging nearby. |
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| I've been seeing swallowtails like this western tiger swallowtail flitting around for weeks, but today I finally got to photograph one of them when it stopped to sun itself on a nearby blackberry stem at Middle Lake. |
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| It took so long for the butterfly to land in a spot where I could photograph it that I almost gave up. It kept moving to new locations, only to present another impossible angle. Thankfully it finally settled in a good spot before flying completely out of the area. |
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| At least three Allen's hummingbirds were claiming territory nearby. |
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| This guy had a favorite branch to return to after chasing off the interlopers. |
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| These are the first ducklings I've seen this season. I thought I'd see my first ones at Blue Heron Lake, but these were at Middle Lake. A passer-by said he also saw goslings earlier in the day. |
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| Ducklings On The Green |
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| If you said the top photo was a bison's coat, you nailed it. |
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