Favoritos de tracyk2

Ravenswood Salt Ponds R1/R2 - Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, San Mateo County, California

The gorget of the male Rufous Hummingbird reflects light and instantly changes colors. It sometimes looks like you could peel it off.

Dairy Ravine Trail & Ridge Trail - San Bruno Mountain State & County Park, San Mateo County, California

We saw hundreds of Trumpeter Swans foraging in several agricultural fields and flying low over fields. These photos are from different spots along and near Best Rd. in the Skagit Valley.

A pair of Harlequin Ducks rdesting on a boulder; two more females swam with them.

Three male Harlequin Ducks swam and dived with two females.

A pair of Marbled Murrelets swam and dived near the pier.

We counted 59 Trumpeter Swans when we arrived at 9:30, and they all stayed swimming and resting on the lake for an hour. Then a few flew off in groups of 3-5, leaving some still swimming on the lake.

One male and two female Harlequin Ducks were swimming together and resting on boulders just offshore.

Taken by my boyfriend.

Five or more Golden-crowned Kinglets flitted about in conifers on the edge of someone's property.

Three male Harlequin Ducks were swimming far from shore. This one swam closer to climb onto the fallen log to preen for several minutes beside a gull.

A Barred Owl stopped briefly on a Madrone tree. Although they are non-native and harming the survival of the Spotted Owl... they are beautiful birds.

A musical European Robin sang by the ancient church.

The first Pararge aegeria (Speckled Wood) I've ever seen, resting in the sun on the grass.

I was excited to find a Macroglossum stellatarum (Eurasian Hummingbird Hawkmoth) nectaring on lobelia in a window box in Santillana del Mar.

Fry

A beautiful Parnassius clodius (Rocky Mountain Parnassian) posed for ten minutes nectaring on Cirsium edule (Edible Thistle).

A Pisaster ochraceus (Ochre Star) in shades of purple and mauve, something we'd never seen before. We counted 143 healthy Pisasters today, and many more were probably under the masses of kelp.

This is the computer's identification, and it seems reasonably to me (who doesn't know western moths)

Cicogna bianca

Cavaliere d'Italia

Barlow Road Trail - Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve, Santa Clara County, California

A ranger later told us that they call him "Cinnamon", or now "Big Cinnamon", as I believe that he sired a cub of the same color.

Endemic

Saratoga Springs, Lake County, California

A pair of Harlequin Ducks swam and dived close to shore, plunging straight into the small waves.

Did not see the tail but an American Stoat has been staying around my bird feeders waiting for rodents.

A large male Roosevelt Elk (Cervus canadensis roosevelti) with a GPS collar grazed with two females in an empty lot beside the school. Nine others were nearby.

A 3/4" Pseudacris regilla (Northern Pacific Treefrog) on yarrow. The golden toes are beautiful!

Sunnyvale WPCP, Santa Clara County, CA, 2022-06-04

Contra Costa County , California .

We saw four (maybe six?) Rhinoceros Auklets, one with a fish.

Three male Varied Thrushes were scavenging in the garden. The day before there were five, all males.

We saw about 100 Trumpeter Swans foraging in groups of 15-20 in the agricultural fields. A few were grayish juveniles. These were the closest to the road.

People at Point No Point said Southern Resident Orcas were swimming by for the first time in a month. We saw five in the far distance by Whidbey Island.

This Pacific Wren was the only bird we saw at Lake Quinault.

I saw a dozen healthy adult Henricia leviuscula (Blood Star) during the minus tide.