Archive for June, 2016
Thursday, June 30th, 2016
Western Sagebrush Lizard (Sceloporus graciosus), McGee Creek, Eastern Sierra, 2016-06-30
This is a male, flashing his blue throat.
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Thursday, June 30th, 2016
Whitney’s Locoweed (Astragalus whitneyi), McGee Creek, Eastern Sierra, 2016-06-30
Eventually those inflated seed pods dry out, turn gold, and blow away, breaking apart to release the plant’s seeds in a new location.
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Thursday, June 30th, 2016
McGee Creek, Mono, California, US
Jun 30, 2016 11:04 AM – 12:10 PM
15 species
Turkey Vulture 1
Red-breasted Sapsucker 2
Warbling Vireo 1
Black-billed Magpie 1
Common Raven 2
House Wren 1
American Robin 1
European Starling 1
Yellow Warbler 4
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Green-tailed Towhee 6
Black-headed Grosbeak 1
Lazuli Bunting 1
Brewer’s Blackbird 1
Bullock’s Oriole 2
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Tags: for a long time, mcgee creek, not a lot of species, I was hampered by a lack of time, and unfamiliarity with some of the vocalizations I was hearing, but the birds we saw were some quality birds, the lazuli bunting esp., was one linda and I have wanted to see together. Posted in Tumblr by jbc | Permalink | No Comments »
Thursday, June 30th, 2016
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Thursday, June 30th, 2016
Tags: insects, also, insects anonsally will never see, i really love batesian mimicry, as when a harmless fly, like that one on the right, tries very hard to make you think it's a scary stinging insect, like that one on the left, how beautiful is that flower?, i've been hiking in the eastern sierra over the last few days, and the flowers are out of control. Posted in Tumblr by jbc | Permalink | No Comments »
Thursday, June 30th, 2016
catonhottinroof:
Ernest Parton
In a Fairy Woodland
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Thursday, June 30th, 2016
debunkshy:
Northern Waterthrush
Salmo Pond, WI
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Tags: but still, it's true, like, PJH, really, it's weird, there are those kids you went to school with, and it's years later, and you're looking in the yearbook, or on facebook, and you see a photo, and you just stare at the name or picture and scratch your head, you went there?, at the same time as me?, they just slip through unnoticed, this bird is that for me, same for the overbird and louisiana, i know they exist, i've birded my whole life, most of it outside their normal range, never seen them, i probably just need to learn how to look, and then they'll be everywhere, won't be able to throw a stick without hitting a waterthrush. Posted in Tumblr by jbc | Permalink | No Comments »
Thursday, June 30th, 2016
Heart Lake cabin
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Thursday, June 30th, 2016
Mountain Pride (Penstemon newberryi) was John Muir’s favorite flower. I came upon a small patch of them on a rocky outcrop on the trail to Heart Lake.
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
katefuckingwinslet:
Sense + Sensibility (1995)
Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn – to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise.
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
Tags: or at least, but you know, why I'm on team alone, team you don't have any legitimate basis, for claiming any particular numeric probability, for team not-alone, it is as likely that life is unique to earth, as that life is non-unique to earth, in the sense that when you don't know how many sides the die has, arguing that a very large number of die rolls is likely to produce a 1, betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of probability, it surprises me how many otherwise numerate people, betray that particular misunderstanding, people prefer stories with gods, tigers, , to stories without them, the human imagination has a narrative bias, i guess it's harder to imagine and wonder at, the possibility that life exists only here, than that it is commonplace, people have always drawn cool doodles in the blank margins of their maps, but that's not the same as actually going there. Posted in Tumblr by jbc | Permalink | No Comments »
Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
my friends: what’s up
me: I can’t stop thinking about how birds don’t remember a time before roads. Like, birds have no written history or oral tradition. As far as any bird is concerned, This is how the world has Always been and they’re just tryin’ to make it like the rest of us. They just keep on keepin’ on. Birds have no idea there used to be so much more for them. So much forest and food abundant, so they just live in this era the best they can without the burdensome knowledge of the life they could have lived and I find that both fortunate and sad.
my friends: Why Are You Like This.
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
dendroica:
Black Swallowtail, Papilio polyxenes, top and bottom (by me)
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Tags: insects, also, insects anonsally will never see, hard for me to understand this one being problematic, but there are visible arthropod legs, plus a foreground ladybug in one shot, so def. insectoid and squicky, potentially, beautiful and sad, in the way swallowtails have always seemed to me, not sure why on the sad part. Posted in Tumblr by jbc | Permalink | No Comments »
Monday, June 27th, 2016
Juniper
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