My 20000th observation!
Iceland Gull amongst Kittiwakes
the legendary 8-mer
Large cluster of fairly clean bones. Most likely it’s some kind of small-to-medium mammal based on the jaws and skull. Assuming a raccoon or fox. I couldn’t find any canine teeth though.
Always making a funny face. This one with bonus drool.
It’s time to be real
Beautiful triple-leaved individual!!
Found this lil one which I have never seen a color morph like this for a Mud snake. I determined it to be one based off the visual/physical features such as the “tail spine”, pattern, head/eye shape, as well as a divided anal plate.
observation is for bird on right; observation for the Cooper's Hawk here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/58881743
My mirror failed to fully retract on one shot (I think), making a false "ground" right where it should be for a chaparral yucca. This (hespero)yucca also afforded me a glimpse of two yucca moths! Previously observed. Initial observation Follow-up observation showing habitat and height scale
Eastern Phoebe with a small fish in it's mouth.
Rip stinkbug
One single plant, growing somewhat close to a trail and six feet from its host plant. New location for this plant as far as I can tell. Never been recorded here before, even in the herbarium records.
Super weird one, 5-6mm long, found on red algae. Orange flecks are throwing me off..
Is this really milkweed? It was growing among milkweed but this looks like an albino milkweed??
After spending over a week canoeing and camping in Temagami, Ontario, on July 14, 2012 we arrived in Toronto at about 7:00 pm; as always, Catherine moved her van from her driveway as I was going to park there. As I was very slowly backing up into her driveway, I suddenly felt that one of my tires ran into something in the driveway and I was unable to continue. I got out of the car and saw a big, dead raccoon lying next to the rear car’s wheel. Initially, I thought that perhaps the raccoon was simply hiding under Catherine’s van, seeking shade, and as Catherine was moving the van, she inadvertently ran over it. But once we closely examined the hapless creature, we immediately discovered the cause of its untimely demise: apparently, it had found a big empty peanut butter jar, which had some traces of peanut butter inside, so the raccoon obviously attempted to get whatever was left inside the jar by inserting its mouth inside the jar, which got stuck… unable to remove it, the raccoon simply suffocated! Catherine’s father was not aware of this incident, but said that indeed, Gabby the dog was somehow attracted to something on the other side of the parked van! Catherine called the City of Toronto and the raccoon was removed overnight.
The second photograph is the same, but much bigger.
The banded one in the third photo PERCHED ON MY HEAD and stayed there for over a minute. I could hear its bands jingling in my ears. So astonishing, no presence of mind to take a selfie. Pretty sure someone must be feeding them... There were three family groups in the area, for a total of ten jays seen. Wow.
Close up of abaxial leaf surface from this observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/88128615
Ridiculous find by Ben Douglas. I'm over the moon.
On Chinese chestnut. Second photo taken the next day.
Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes area, San Luis Obispo County, California
Interesting pattern on the solidified mud inside a mostly-disintegrated bivalve shell! Working hypothesis: clam died, barnacles grew on the inside of the shell, shell filled with mud, mud solidified, and the shell mostly disintegrated. I can't tell how obvious it is from the photos, but the surface of the barnacle-pattern is totally smooth, like a polished rock.
Given the possibility of some smoke in the air today, I went out really early this AM to #YoloBypass in the hopes of getting some pictures with a red sun. I got there before the gate was opened and then, when it was opened at 625 or so I headed in. I parked at this wildlife viewing area in the rice fields and started walking East looking at the red sun, hoping to see something fly in front of it. After a few near misses I saw an egret flying at just about the right height off in the distance. It was flying North to South and I took a bunch of pics as it flew and then BOOM it flew right in front of the sun.
Day 82, one individual.
Relacionado con // Related to:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2667158
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2667199
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2667420
first time I've seen a bear eating bear berries!
Ed Levin County Park, Santa Clara County, CA, 2020-11-18
An iNat first apparently!! Seen with @matthewt6416 on a sandy prairie habitat
This bird seemed to be a dipper, which doesn’t make sense for the range. It was performing bobbing motions typical of dippers I have seen out west, was about the right size, and stayed near the stream until chased off by another similarly sized bird. Anyone know of a better ID based on those observations? I can send the Live Photo to anyone who would like—Doesn’t show much, unfortunately.
I should have held onto this until 2020-04-01 but thought I'd impose it on you good folks now ... yes the bird is in the photo!
Yes, this Scrub Jay has captured a snake! I was blown away.
I got no idea on this one. Every time I think I have it there’s something that makes me think it’s not.
anyone know what bird that is backthere asking for a friend