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@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
#naturalist #bird #wildlife

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
2025-06-24 15:00:38

Sierra lupines, Lupinus grayi, in the Yosemite Valley about a month ago
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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
2025-08-22 18:43:06

An American dipper, Cinclus mexicanus, living up to its name at Snow Lake earlier this week. These guys are aquatic songbirds, basically thrushes who saw what ducks do and decided it looked fun
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A slate-gray thrush-like bird, standing by a rock with its feet in the clear water of a lake, in profile to the camera
The same bird, now perched on a rock surrounded by water, looking straight at the camera with its head tilted a bit
Same bird, same rock, but now the bird is bending down to fully submerge its head in the water, probably to snag a snack
@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-08-19 16:30:06

This collared pika, Ochotona collaris, popped up on a boulder by the path to the Snow Lake overlook and sure seemed like it had something to say
#naturalist #wildlife #photography

A small rodent like a roly-poly gerbil or mouse crossed with a teddy bear, sitting primly with its little paws at the edge of a boulder, looking forward as though about to launch into song or maybe a political speech
@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
2025-07-15 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
2025-06-25 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
@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-07-10 19:58:26

Lady's slipper, Cypripedium acaule, along the carriage roads in Acadia National Park last month
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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
2025-07-07 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
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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
2025-06-06 16:25:20

Pacific wren, Troglodytes pacificus, along the Merced River in Yosemite National Park
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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
2025-07-04 18:50:44

Let freedom wing?
Canada jay, Perisoreus canadensis, at the summit of Rattlesnake Ledge outside Seattle
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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
2025-08-04 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
2025-07-03 15:40:40

Mariposa lily, Calochortus leichtlinii, in Yosemite National Park
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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
2025-06-05 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
2025-08-02 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