This is another strange plant, Indian pipe, Monotropa uniflora. [img] ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden )
One from the desert today, Strawberry Hedgehog Cactus, Echinocereus engelmannii. [img] ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden )
We have a few kingfishers around but not easy to get a decent photo of. I see them quite often and I keep trying. This is one from this week....
Two sea urchins today, the more common one the Purple sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, and the Green urchin, Strongylocentrotus...
We have a beautiful little orchid today, the Calypso orchid, Calypso bulbosa. Only 5 inches tall. [img] ( photo / image / picture from...
We have a nice colorful one today, False chanterelle Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca. It can be found in Europe and is edible though not tasty so the...
We go back to the chitons today with another two, Katharina tunicata, the Black Katy chiton and Mopalia ciliata, the Hairy chiton [img] (...
We have three mergansers around this area. Usually I don't get as close as I did today.
We are on the water for todays bird, actually we have two birds and three pictures for you this time. I thought the first two would be...
You thought you would catch me out and not have any didn't you. Prosopis californicum, Mistletoe. [img] ( photo / image / picture from...
Hummingbirds are one of the birds that do that. They are here all year round and sometimes we have a cold spell. Look at this male Anna's....
A smaller bird today. This one is quite friendly, if I go near a window or go outside he comes over to me. I hand feed him a few times a day....
Thank you for all the posts. Today we have one that I haven't seen very often, Woodland Pinedrops, Pterospora andromedea. A neat looking plant....
Today we have a strange one, Flattop Seasquirt Chelyosoma productum. Only seen one of these. [img] ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's...
I like to find these jelly like fungi. Most are yellow but we have a different colour today Tremella foliacea. This was found on the bark of a...
Two images today, Nucella lamellosa, Wrinkled whelk with eggs and then someone else trying to look like a Nucella lamellosa, a hermit crab....
I like these parasitic flowers, this is a strange one, Pinesap, Monotropa hypopithys. [img] ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden )
The parasitic plants that I posted daily are all together on this page now, Parasitic Plants
Hi Frank, both the Hairy and Downy woodpecker males have the red on the back of the head.
Great pictures, must be fun having a fox around.
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