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

Song sparrow, Melospiza melodia, on a gray morning at Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve
#naturalist #wildlife

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
2026-04-21 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
2026-03-23 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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A honeybee in sharp focus, perched on the curving fleshy petals of one green-yellow flower amidst a larger inflorescence of green-yellow flowers with curving fleshy petals
@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
#naturalist

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
#naturalist #wildlife

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
#naturalist #wildflower

A raceme of purple-and-white papilionoid flowers, framed by palmately compound bright green leaves
@jby@ecoevo.social
2026-02-12 16:54:03

Red-winged blackbird, Agelaius phoeniceus, screaming at the world, because sometimes that's what you have to do
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A black bird with bright red shoulder patches, clinging to an upright twig and leaning forward with its beak open, feathers fluffed out with the effort of screaming
@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