Roadside observations in my neighborhood are getting increasingly difficult, as Santa Monica Mountain roads are getting cleared from “weeds” for fire season. I found many native and invasive species in the hillside across from my house on the weekend, but on Monday and Tuesday that hill was “cleaned up” too. As I was trying to figure out where else to go for my daily iNat sanity hour out and about, two California Quails showed up to forage the whacked grasses. So at least that…