Animals in Urbania
Feeding on Salvia clevelandii with a flock of bishtits
Being harrassed by Brewer's Blackbirds.
Considering the ethics of foraging in a handicapped space
On the Tau Beta Pi bent at San Jose State U
Pecking on a fence post. A second one showed up briefly and they were loud at each other.
With a Brewer's Blackbird
At the garbage behind Peet's. with a House Sparrow.
Been singing almost straight through from midnight to noon. Flying around between the tops of various trees and telephone poles.
This is a famed nest site for this species locally, near the entrance to the largest supermarket in town. Birds often dive-bomb customers.
Going with us, perhaps, to see the Wikileaks film. At the Aquarius Theater in downtown Palo Alto
American Robin wants to enroll in SJSU's Packaging Technology Program!
Perched on top of a telephone pole making rattling noises and a surprising sort of "woot-oot, woot-oot."
Overexposed here; quite yellow in real life. Second photo blurrier but truer to colors.
Cepaea hortensis?
Managed to find a tiny bit not covered by pigeon spikes. Later joined by a second bird.
Seen this tiny guy in our backyard over the weekend. We were sitting outside enjoying the dusk and early evening. Later when I was about to go in for the night I noticed this tiny fly hanging out by the light. It couldn't have been bigger than a half a centimeter, but it remains me of a parasitic wasp, but beyond that I'm not too sure. In the second photo there is a little more perspective to the size of this creature, the clear line on the margin of the photo is the light-bulb that it was perched next to.
How do animals exist in and exploit urban areas and human created resources? We welcome all observations of animals in highly human-dominated landscapes, especially those where an animal has adapted to use a human created resource (e.g. birds nesting in buildings, racoons dumpster diving, or snakes sunning themselves on the road.) Please be descriptive of the observed behaviour and include p... ...more ↓
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created this project on February 1, 2012
