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Found near the base of a dead Agavi shawii in between the leaves.
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Found basking on a patch of seaweed just above the high tide line.
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עקב אדום-זנב (Buteo jamaicensis)מתצפת.ת
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I initially thought this was a courtship flight gone wrong, but based on plumage & insight from a more knowledgeable birder (see below), it's more likely that these were two subadults that were sparring. They apparently hit the power lines directly above where we were standing. The second photo shows their clasped talons, so we assumed that they hit the power lines as they were spiraling towards the ground. Not a love story. Observed with grasshopper biologist @dawood.
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An impressive amount of color variation in this species, even at the same site.
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Found dead on the side of busy HWY43 with @dawood, clearly hit the night before.
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Rosy boa people can correct me on what to call this is exactly. Casey Moss flipped it out from under the base of a dead Agave shawii. The snake was inside the base of the agave, not on the ground beneath it. The third photos shows what the general habitat looks like.
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High density of these poppies in an area that forms a large ephemeral pool near the center of the valley (the darker area in the panorama photo). Last September after the Hurricane Kae, these pools had Triops and at least two species of fairy shrimp in them.
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Jeff Nordland found this snake the night before, in the same spot. We went back in the morning and it was still there as of 9:00AM.