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@jby@ecoevo.social
2026-04-21 15:48:46

Holly-leafed cherry, Prunus ilicifolia, flowering all over the place in Placerita Canyon this past weekend
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Racemes of small white five-petaled flowers, at the end of a twig with some dark green leaves with very holly-like toothed edges

Close view between two leaves on another holly-leafed cherry, where a European honeybee is nectaring on an inflorescence of flowers

@jby@ecoevo.social
2026-04-20 14:19:04

Golden currant, Ribes aureum, at Sepulveda Basin 🌿
#naturalist #wildflower

A branch with many dark green palmately lobed leaves and tubular bright yellow flowers

@jby@ecoevo.social
2026-03-19 15:54:03

Allen's hummingbird, Selasporus sasin, standing watch at Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve
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A front three-quarters view of a red-brown hummingbird with an iridescent orange gorget above a white breast, perched on a twig in front of out-of-focus foliage

@jby@ecoevo.social
2026-04-16 15:54:03

Pied-billed grebe, Podilymbus podiceps, on the water at Sepulveda Basin
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A small variegated brown waterbird with a small triangular beak marked by a vertical dark stripe, floating on rippling water

@jby@ecoevo.social
2026-04-14 14:54:04

Arroyo Lupine, Lupinus succulentus, at Sepulveda Basin this spring
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A raceme of purple-and-white papilionoid flowers, framed by palmately compound bright green leaves

@jby@ecoevo.social
2026-04-10 14:15:14

Greenspot nightshade, Solanum douglasii, at Sepulveda Basin this spring
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Two flowers with white, five-lobed corollas like stars, framing long tubular yellow anthers with pores at their tips, closely appressed to narrow styles

@jby@ecoevo.social
2026-05-03 01:46:33

On the final botany class field trip for the semester, I caught chaparral whitethorn (Ceanothus leucodermis) with fresh flowers and fruits on the same twig
#naturalist #photography #fruit

A slender branch, with striking smooth pale bark, with a clutch of bright green ovate leaves, a cluster of almost spherical green-and-red fruits, and a raceme of tiny pale blue flowers

@jby@ecoevo.social
2026-03-25 13:17:04

Song sparrow, Melospiza melodia, on a gray morning at Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve
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A brown-and-white striped sparrow with mostly lighter coloring on the breast, perched amongst twigs with no leaves but early buds, in front of a gray sky

@jby@ecoevo.social
2026-04-22 19:43:42

This Earth Day, I'm grateful for the many different ways I get to encounter the living world, from wild landscapes to manicured gardens, from trees by the sidewalk to protected green spaces
Mt Roosevelt over Snow Lake; the Japanese Garden in the Washington Park Arboretum; a robin in New Haven; a lupine at Sepulveda Basin
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A rocky ridgeline with multiple peaks under a cloudy sky, above a quiet lake, all framed by conifer branches

A Japanese garden-scape full of autumn-colored trees and shrubs, framing a bridge over a mirror-still pond that reflects all the colorful foliage

An American Robin perched on a twig amidst ripe red berries and autumn-yellow leaves

A raceme of bright blue-purple and white papillionoid flowers, framed against a backdrop of deep green palmately compound leaves

@jby@ecoevo.social
2026-03-23 14:19:03

"Ecological fitting" in an image: a domestic honeybee, Apis mellifera, on flowers of a western Joshua tree, Yucca brevifolia, at Quartz Hill, California back in January
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