
2025-04-09 16:50:04
My weekend trip to the desert included a stop at the Antelope Valley California Poppy Preserve, where the poppies were finally out, if not in superbloom mode
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Pacific wren, Troglodytes pacificus, along the Merced River in Yosemite National Park
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Photographed a new lupine — harlequin lupine, Lupinus stiversii — in Yosemite National Park over the weekend
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Anyway here's a California poppy, Eschscholzia californica, at the Antelope Valley California Poppy Preserve earlier this spring
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CSUN campus squirrels are spoiled rotten, not the least because we have a largely un-harvested orange grove
(fox squirrel, Sciurus niger; sweet orange, Citrus x sinensis I assume)
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Happy Sunday from the CSUN campus black phoebes
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Western Meadowlark, Sturnella neglecta, on the trailside fencing at Asilomar State Beach back in January
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A lizard — side-blotched, Uta stansburiana, I think? — debating sunlight and shade under the leaves of a caniagre dock plant at Saddleback Butte State Park this weekend
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