I saw him crossing the main trail going to the seal overlook. He moved quickly into the brush.
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I saw a raccoon killed on the on-ramp of the 101 Freeway just a few meters from Vallecito Road.
My husband and I counted 131 seals and one dead pup from the bluff top rookery viewing area.
We were walking up the new road in the Rancho Monte Alegre development along upper Santa Monica Creek and found it dead on its back in the road. When we turned it over there was fresh blood on the road. We passed some walkers with a dog, so the dog might have killed it.
The bird was fly catching from a post in a non-native grassland.
Large Buteo flew over river, scared waterfowl, and proceeded to perch on a large tree for over 20 minutes.
My ID skills with hawks isn't the greatest so any feedback would be welcome
Crushed body in the east bound lane near the center stripe of Via Real between Lambert and ToroCanyon Road near the fire hydrant.
A male Oak Titmouse was looking for a place to hide a bit of food at the base of our Aricauria at 9:35am.
Nectaring on a Bottle Brush Bush and fighting with Allen's Hummingbirds.
A pair of Towhees were foraging on the ground under an Auricaria near Island Snapdragons and a Toyon.
Two birds nectaring on a Bottle Brush Bush fighting with Anna's Hummingbirds.
I saw 9 fluttering around in pairs and singly along the the trail paralleling the Silversands mobile home park in the Carpinteria Salt Marsh Nature Park.
The Nuthatch was searching the eaves of a house to try to store food in its mouth.
There were many red apple leaf galls created by this sawfly.
There was an Arroyo Willow(Salix laseolepis) that had many clusters of this potato stem gall.
I saw two squirrels foraging about half a block from eachother.
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I saw about 20 in a half block walk. The weather was sunny about 78F. Few looked like they were nectaring. Two looked like they were mating.
I saw a dead skunk by the edge of the Baillard off-ramp on the south bound 101.
This butterfly landed on a grass lawn to rest at about 1pm. The overcast was just lifting.
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This is a tube shaped leaf gall created by a midge on the leaves of Salix lasiolepis(Arroyo Willow).
The purpose of this project is to create a list of the wildlife in the Carpinteria Valley, California and find the habitats they frequent, so we can better protect our wildlife.
