המועדפים של one-strange-ranger

Photographed by Alyce Bender and uploaded by David Cook for Lost Words NANPA Project

I am backloading nature photos from before I used iNaturalist.

Male hung around for quite awhile.
Chased a male Anna’s away.

the two smaller birds on the left

Swallowing a fish.

Calling from flooded ditch on side of road. One Hyla chrysoscelis also calling

Male and female

Perched on a utility pole, flew around some, perched in pine trees.

Rarity first found by Torin Waters the same morning. Lots of birders got to see this very obliging bird, which was a first county record and very rare (casual) in the U.S.

Vagrant from Mexico

Two species in this image. This entry is for the larger beetle.

Leucuistic

Mature male

With Valeri Ponzo; a successful visit to see "Sunny," the celebrated xanthochroic male Northern Cardinal.

upper canopy of Brachychiton populneus (Kurrajong)

with Brewer's Blackbird

Leucistic

Bat mist netting with AGFD

Parents with one young.