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True Slime Molds (Class Myxomycetes)Observer
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Absolutely weird growth on a green (not long fallen) spruce twig
Photos / Sounds
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Rat-tailed Fusiform Sea Cucumber (Paracaudina chilensis)Observer
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Chestnut-backed Chickadee (Poecile rufescens)Observer
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Resident flock.
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Pacific Foldingdoor Spider (Antrodiaetus pacificus)Observer
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Saw a few of these spiders resolutely striding to the ocean, hundreds of feet from the nearest grass or the cliff. Anyone know what they were doing?
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Chestnut-backed Chickadee (Poecile rufescens)Observer
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A large group of these clowns comes to feed here every day. This one was hopping in and out among the branches, hanging upside down and eating bugs. Quite the acrobat!
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Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis)Observer
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On the tree, he seems to be grabbing bugs off the trunk. Little crumbs drop from the tree as he goes, almost like I'd expect to see with a woodpecker.