Though more like a blue-winged teal at this angle of light.

About half the size of the Western Gulls.

This is all I got before a jogger with music playing scared it off.

Plus a Canvasback being undignified.

Pair on the left displaying a little.

On a cherry tree.

Fallen leaves. No new buds on the trees yet.

I'm actually not sure if this is Prunus or an oak seedling. It was sharp.

Some kind of weed I hadn't seen before. Silvery bottom leaves, green top leaves.

Under oaks. White maggots inside.

Picking bugs out of a hole in a tomb.

White spores, apparently. Under oaks.

Yes this is naturalized. It's in pockets all over the south bay and peninsula and spreads easily from seed.

Veil. In grass.

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Bald face.

Stooping to conquer.

Dabbling whilst wading in the much.

A very easy-to-ID species regardless of sex.

A pack of coots came racing across the mudflat to this spot, where they all stopped and took a bath for a long time.

Muddy buddy.

Bill starting to turn blue.

In grass.

Dredged up something.

Injured wing.

Some blooming in beds, with the gravel path around them covered in their seedlings, and lots of them off in the wild tangle around the creek.

Spreading from Rengstorff House off towards the creek.

Veil. In grass and short vegetation.

Hair blowin' in the breeze.

Didn't notice at the time, but it has a leg band! Look like it's #46 (or a number beginning with 46).

Scavenging a dead bird's head.

A little bit muddy.

And curlew.

And Willet.

yikes

Interesting pattern on small succulent leaves.