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@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
2025-07-07 16:44:17

In these trying times, let me offer an Atlantic puffin, Fratercula arctica, swimming near the Petit Manan breeding colony off the coast of Maine
#naturalist #wildlife #bird

A midsized seabird with black wings and throat, a white face, and a parrot-like orange bill as big as the rest of its face, paddling on gentle rolling waves
@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-08-04 17:35:07

A watchful Wilson's warbler, Cardellina pusilla, along the trails in Discovery Park last month
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A small mostly yellow songbird with a black cap, black primaries, and tail, perched on a twig with out-of-focus greenery in the background
@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-07-04 18:50:44

Let freedom wing?
Canada jay, Perisoreus canadensis, at the summit of Rattlesnake Ledge outside Seattle
#naturalist #wildlife #bird

A small mostly corvid with white face, throat, and belly, poised in midair centimeters off a twig with wings outspread, primary feathers splayed
@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-06-05 00:58:34

Photographed a new lupine — harlequin lupine, Lupinus stiversii — in Yosemite National Park over the weekend
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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
2025-07-03 15:40:40

Mariposa lily, Calochortus leichtlinii, in Yosemite National Park
#naturalist #photography #wildflower

A lily with three narrow white sepals and three large white petals, with yellow shading towards the central whorls of the flower and a deep red-purple spot where the yellow shading starts on each petal; photographed with some out-of-focus rock and ferns visible in the background
@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-08-02 19:16:21

A cool thing about the Seattle Frontrunners group runs is that this barred owl (Strix varia) is not even the first owl I've seen this close on a run. (This one was along the ravine trail in Ravenna Park this morning.)
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A midsize brown-and-white checked owl sitting in a low branch of a cedar
@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-06-30 21:20:17

Yosemite Falls framed by California black oak, Quercus kelloggii
#naturalist #photography #YosemiteNationalPark

A misty waterfall down a sheer gray cliff face under a flat blue sky, framed by the arcing branch of a tree with lacy pinnately lobed leaves and dark bark
@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-07-31 19:44:51

I love a good borage: Forget-me-nots, Myosotis scorpiodes, outside Acadia National Park back in June
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An inflorescence of blue five-petaled flowers framed by green ovoid-lanceolate leaves
@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-06-27 18:58:25

White-breasted nuthatch, Sitta carolinensis, in absolutely classic nuthatch form up at Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park
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A small passerine with a white face and breast, a black cap and slate-gray wings, perched facing downwards on a lichen-covered tree trunk, its head up so its bill is nearly parallel with the ground below
@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
2025-06-24 15:00:38

Sierra lupines, Lupinus grayi, in the Yosemite Valley about a month ago
#naturalist #wildflower

A straight upright raceme of purple-and-white papillionoid flowers rising from a clutch of palmately compound leaves in sun-dappled shade, with more such flowers and a dark tree-trunk visible out of focus in the background
@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)
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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
2025-07-15 17:17:11

Two national parks, two American robins (Turdus migratorius): in Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park; and at the summit of Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park
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A thrush with a brick-red breast, standing on leaf litter amidst oak seedlings
A very similar thrush, in harsh sunlight on a lichen-covered stone surface
@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-05-12 17:58:13

Western Meadowlark, Sturnella neglecta, on the trailside fencing at Asilomar State Beach back in January
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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
2025-07-10 19:58:26

Lady's slipper, Cypripedium acaule, along the carriage roads in Acadia National Park last month
#naturalist #wildflower #photography

An orchid with narrow strap-like "wings" flanking a bulbous pink labellum that looks a lot like a ballet slipper, lit by indirect sunlight
@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-06-26 17:42:35

And here's Half Dome
#naturalist #photography #landscape #mountains

A view from the Glacier Point lookout, looking over pine trees to the eastern end of the Yosemite Valley; the valley in shadow to the right of Half Dome, a prominence of bare rock viewed edge-on with a sheer flat face on the left, and a rounded back on the right; all under pale blue sky studded with clouds
@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-06-25 22:22:49

Midmorning view up the Yosemite Valley
#naturalist #landscape #photography #YosemiteNationalPark

A green-forested valley with a flat floor, running into blue misty distance between steep vertical cliffs; on the right a waterfall is visible down one of the cliffs, and the distinctive profile of Half Dome is visible at the far end of the valley