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@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-04-09 16:50:04

Good morning from Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Refuge
#naturalist #LosAngeles #wildflowers

A dusty flat path between low greenery, shaded by over-arching oak trees with morning sun peeking through the branches
A ladybird beetle on a stalk of dock
An arroyo lupine, a single panicle of purple papillionoid flowers surrounded by palmately compound leaves, all beaded with dew
A flowering branch of western redbud, pink papillionoid flowers and ovate green leaves hanging from woody stems
@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-04-07 18:38:47

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
#naturalist

A California poppy, four bright orange petals surrounding a spray of orange stamens
Two people viewed from a distance, standing against a blue sky with wispy white clouds on the summit of a gentle hillside streaked with orange poppies and green-brown grass
@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-06-06 16:25:20

Pacific wren, Troglodytes pacificus, along the Merced River in Yosemite National Park
#naturalist #photography #bird #wildlife

A small brown wren with its underparts checkered in darker and lighter shades, perched on a branch against a blurred green background, in profile to the camera with its tail up
@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-06-05 00:58:34

Photographed a new lupine — harlequin lupine, Lupinus stiversii — in Yosemite National Park over the weekend
#naturalist

A just-emerging lupine inflorescence with three fully open yellow-and-pink papillionoid flowers, framed by still-opening palmately compound leaves, and with a cluster of young fruits visible out of focus in the background
@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-05-28 22:36:41

Anyway here's a California poppy, Eschscholzia californica, at the Antelope Valley California Poppy Preserve earlier this spring
#naturalist

A single flower with five brilliant orange petals and a profusion of orange stamens framed against out-of-focus lacy green leaves and dry stalks of grass
@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-05-21 16:56:16

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)
#naturalist #photography #wildlife

A gray squirrel with red-brown underparts, holding a half-eaten orange in its paws like a little man who's been caught chowing down on a pumpkin
@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-05-04 20:34:38

Happy Sunday from the CSUN campus black phoebes
#naturalist #bird #wildlife #photography

A dapper little flycatcher, mostly black with white underparts, perched on a bollard with its head cocked slightly
@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-05-12 17:58:13

Western Meadowlark, Sturnella neglecta, on the trailside fencing at Asilomar State Beach back in January
#naturalist #wildlife #photography

A mostly brown-and-white bird with a bright yellow breast marked by a black chevron, perched on a wire with out-of-focus blue surf visible in the background
@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-04-10 17:43:11

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
#naturalist

A small gray-and-brown striped lizard with a dark streaky blotch of color at its flank, sitting just under the shade of a big leathery leaf with a ragged edge