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White-lined Sphinx (Hyles lineata)Observer
k-outdoorsDescription
Pale with light blue highlights. Freshly emerged, could not fly. Moved it under a plant and it shook it's wings for about 10 before it could fly.
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Canyon Liveforever (Dudleya cymosa)Observer
k-outdoorsDescription
Living in the cracks of large boulders beside the river
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Evening Bats (Family Vespertilionidae)Observer
k-outdoorsDescription
Found inside closed outdoor umbrella
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Spotted Tree Borer (Synaphaeta guexi)Observer
k-outdoorsDescription
Found coming out of a fallen Black Locust branch
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Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus)Observer
k-outdoorsDescription
Beside the road sitting on an old tire. Thought it had been hit, but it did fly away freely
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Observer
k-outdoorsDescription
Female, with wings, about to swarm. Found lots of males and females in a nest under the bark of an old fallen tree
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Pipevine Swallowtail (Battus philenor)Observer
k-outdoorsDescription
Hanging under roof of trail map
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California Tortoiseshell (Nymphalis californica)Observer
k-outdoorsDescription
Back of right hindwing missing
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Sierra Nevada Ensatina (Ensatina eschscholtzii ssp. platensis)Observer
k-outdoorsDescription
Pair found under tarp on DG pile.
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Sierra Newt (Taricha sierrae)Observer
k-outdoorsDescription
Newt preparing for mating. Three seen where trail crosses creek.