Palo Alto Baylands Bioblitz
Finally made it to one of these!
Observations
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Spiders (Order Araneae)Observer
sea-kangarooDescription
A lot in the short vegetation next to the trail here (two different webs in photos). Didn't see any actual spiders.
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White Horehound (Marrubium vulgare)Observer
sea-kangarooDescription
Pretty common along the trails.
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American Avocet (Recurvirostra americana)Observer
sea-kangarooDescription
Look at that crazy beak.
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Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia)Observer
sea-kangarooDescription
Standing on some pretty swell lichen.
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Pacific Goldenthread (Cuscuta pacifica)Observer
sea-kangarooDescription
Cheerfully strangling some pickleweed.
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Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis)Observer
sea-kangarooDescription
Lots more at the Duck Pond later on.
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Northern Pintail (Anas acuta)Observer
sea-kangarooDescription
A bunch out on the bay.
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California Ground Squirrel (Otospermophilus beecheyi)Observer
sea-kangarooDescription
Burrows too.
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Brewer's Blackbird (Euphagus cyanocephalus)Observer
sea-kangarooDescription
2 hanging out with some picnickers.
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Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus)Observer
sea-kangaroo
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Golden-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia atricapilla)Observer
sea-kangaroo
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Great Egret (Ardea alba)Observer
sea-kangarooDescription
Visible (and visibly large) from afar.
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American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)Observer
sea-kangaroo
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Common Lichens (Class Lecanoromycetes)Observer
sea-kangarooDescription
On painted wood.
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Pride of Madeira (Echium candicans)Observer
sea-kangarooDescription
All around the picnic/cottage area. Would have purple flower spikes in another season.
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Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)Observer
sea-kangarooDescription
Plentiful out on the pond. The males all had quite blue-looking heads instead of green; must be something about the light?
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Feral Pigeon (Columba livia var. domestica)Observer
sea-kangarooDescription
A little snapshot of pigeon color diversity.
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Golden-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia atricapilla)Observer
sea-kangaroo
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Yellow-rumped Warbler (Setophaga coronata)Observer
sea-kangaroo
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Golden-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia atricapilla)Observer
sea-kangarooDescription
Sitting on the top of a bush. Thought it was a towhee at first; it was big with a fairly plain brown back.
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Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna)Observer
sea-kangarooDescription
Singing his little heart out. Saw a good handful of both sexes around.
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Pacific Glasswort (Salicornia pacifica)Observer
sea-kangarooDescription
Covered in parasitic, flowering dodder.
The pickleweed throughout the preserve was pretty sad and dead; all dry and grey except for the tips of the plants.
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Indian Hawthorn (Rhaphiolepis indica)Observer
sea-kangarooDescription
Hedge around the mystery cottage thing. Planted once upon a time, and seems to receive irrigation still, so not wild or naturalized.
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Sweet Hakea (Hakea drupacea)Observer
sea-kangarooDescription
Tree near the cottage thing.
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Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla)Observer
sea-kangarooDescription
Very very small, all alone. Dark bill and yellow legs. Wish my good camera hadn't run out of batteries.
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Western Gull (Larus occidentalis)Observer
sea-kangarooDescription
Okay, this one I think is a first-year Western. Darker than the other one, with darker wing tips.
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Domestic Swan Goose (Anser cygnoides var. domesticus)Observer
sea-kangarooDescription
I somehow didn't take any photos of the various huge domestic and wild geese all over the place. Here's one in the background, surrounded by American Coots, a clump of Canada Geese, and a pair of Mallards.
Comments
I saw your name on the screen at the end of the day and I was like "What! Sea-kangaroo is here! And I was looking around the room trying to find you but it's not like I know what you look like. I thought about asking someone, but I chickened out.
Haha, I know! I saw your name like a day later. Maybe we should wear hats with our icon animals on them?
Where did you see notice about the 'blitz?
Hm, I guess I don't actually know. I thought I'd read about it in a journal post from grrylfalcon, but I can't find it mentioned in her journal or the San Mateo County project one. So I guess either somewhere else on iNat or maybe by seeing it on the front page of Nerds For Nature.
Well I don't know about you but I look like my profile icon animal = )
Yah the Nerds for Nature site has all the upcoming bioblitzes in the bay area: http://nerdsfornature.org/bioblitz/
Some more places to keep track of these:
http://www.meetup.com/Nerds-For-Nature/
https://www.facebook.com/NerdsForNature
https://twitter.com/nerds4nature
I, for one, bear a striking resemblance to my icon animal.
Well, my icon is tree-kangaroos, so while there's a strong family resemblance they lack my magnificent tail fin.
Thanks for the links -- and i'm delighted to see a blitz coming up where i've been doing King Tide photography. Some more Greco island photos two weeks after this tide will be great to get.
Does the question of icon resemblance mean i have to wear this hat even if its not freezing? I'll melt.
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