Bumblebee (Bombus sp.) on unknown blue blossom.
Hanging out with the gulls
Crissy Marsh, Presidio, San Francisco CA
Crissy Marsh, Presidio, San Francisco CA
Crissy Marsh, Presidio, San Francisco CA
Crissy Marsh, Presidio, San Francisco CA
A winter visitor seen lounging with the gulls.
Crissy Marsh, Presidio, San Francisco CA
I'm pretty sure this is a Bufflehead hen, a bit far away and small.
Crissy Marsh, Presidio, San Francisco CA
Least Sandpipers
Crissy Marsh, Presidio, San Francisco CA
Bufflehead drake
Crissy Marsh, Presidio, San Francisco CA
Crissy Marsh, Presidio, San Francisco CA
I think it's a Greater Scaup because of the head shape and its green irridescence [confirmed].
Crissy Marsh, Presidio, San Francisco CA
Not sure what this heron was after, but he was really going at it.
Update: I'm told Great Blue's have been seen swallowing gophers, so that must be what he was pulling at.
Crissy Marsh, Presidio, San Francisco CA
Flowering bush, in the Nightshade family? Web-browse turned up Solanum douglasii
as closest match but can't get that thru iNaturalist sources.
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