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Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina)Observer
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This was a delight. This was I think a Mom Harbor seal and fat baby swimming and playing together turning lots of somersaults and lots of head contact couldnt tell if it was kisses licks or head nuzzles. This adult is doing what appears to be a HIGH FIVE to pup.
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Typical Eagle-Owls and Horned Owls (Genus Bubo)Observer
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Neatly gutted Great Horned Owl. Remains were in 3 ares a few ft apart. This is the tail feathers and feathered talons. also found both cleaned intact wings and the skull which I posted. A very neat kill. No meat wasted. No scattered feathers as in a Cat kill I believe...any takes?
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Typical Owls (Family Strigidae)Observer
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Not far from the dead owl I found this rodent backbone embedded in 2 fur bundles. I have 2 questions what is the longest owl pellet any one has seen? How long on a big Great Horned Owl is the area where the pellets r formed. I have seen 4 inch pellets. So this is long for a pellet or and a coyote scat. It was on the ground in pellet area under a Mont Pine tree branch. Next to what looked like a pellet?
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Hawks, Eagles, Kites, and Allies (Order Accipitriformes)Observer
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Dead owl neatly gutted only backbone scull and tail and wing feathers left. Was in three areas within a few ft of each part. Near a Monterey Pine. Was on the ground wonder who got it?
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Pigeon Guillemot (Cepphus columba)Observer
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Thnx for help 2 things i learned the Pigeons have black under their wing and they have no black crossbar at rest and that is what was confusing...:)
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California Sagebrush (Artemisia californica)Observer
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Ca sage nestled under a Ceonothus bush...
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Seaside Woolly Sunflower (Eriophyllum staechadifolium)Observer
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Plants (Kingdom Plantae)Observer
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Bay Laurel old tree many trunks regenerate at base...
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Flowering Plants (Subphylum Angiospermae)Observer
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Nice stand likes the fog during the summers...
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Wild Buckwheats (Genus Eriogonum)Observer
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Thick colorful lvs please help with id...
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California Blackberry (Rubus ursinus ssp. macropetalus)Observer
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Redwood Sorrel (Oxalis oregana)Observer
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White flower not pink...
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Pacific Poison Oak (Toxicodendron diversilobum)Observer
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Nice looking vines a whole wall of them with few leaves ...it is poison oak though...on your left as u come thru tunnel...
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Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)Observer
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Bushy new growth they r just starting to come up...