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Common Gilled Mushrooms and Allies (Order Agaricales)Observer
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Found at the base of a tree, growing in some pine needles.
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Woodchip Morel (Morchella rufobrunnea)Observer
thatchersmithDescription
Found about 35 feet away from an elm tree
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Common Gilled Mushrooms and Allies (Order Agaricales)Observer
thatchersmithDescription
Found growing in a layer of pine needles and wood chips
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Lupines (Genus Lupinus)Observer
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A local wildflower with a hideaway spider on the flowering tip.
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Scudder's Bush Katydids (Genus Scudderia)Observer
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A bit smaller than your average cricket.
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Southern Alligator Lizard (Elgaria multicarinata)Observer
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Found in moist pine litter
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Observer
thatchersmithDescription
Seems to be some kind of ground fungus. Found in pine litter atop a mass of what appears to be mycelium.
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House Finch (Haemorhous mexicanus)Observer
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Stunned by a cooper hawk
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True Slime Molds (Class Myxomycetes)Observer
thatchersmithDescription
Found on wet straw
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Western Jack-O'-Lantern (Omphalotus olivascens)Observer
thatchersmithDescription
Found at the base of dead sycamore trunk
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Turkey-Tail (Trametes versicolor)Observer
thatchersmithDescription
Found on wet elm wood
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Splitgill Mushroom (Schizophyllum commune)Observer
thatchersmithDescription
Found on wet elm wood
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Cavaliers (Genus Melanoleuca)Observer
thatchersmithDescription
Found on grass lawn, white spore print
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Yellow Stainer (Agaricus xanthodermus)Observer
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Found on a grass lawn. Dark spore print, see later pictures
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Genus PhidippusObserver
thatchersmithDescription
Found dead in trailer from Los Angeles
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Western Leaf-footed Bug (Leptoglossus zonatus)Observer
thatchersmithDescription
Missing back left leg. About the size of a quarter
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Black-bellied Slender Salamander (Batrachoseps nigriventris)Observer
thatchersmithDescription
Found 6 in a covered compost pile
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California Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis ssp. californicus)Observer
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Shelf Fungi (Order Polyporales)Observer
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Dry and brittle. Found on base of eucalyptus tree
