Showing posts with label Butterfly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Butterfly. Show all posts
August 15, 2013
June 4, 2012
Lassen
Today is another rain/data day, bringing me to the big city (Quincy), where a post is possible!
Last week I camped and point counted with Mr. Lipp in the northern regions of Lassen National Forest. We caught fish and got ripped to shreds by manzanita, so there were ups and downs to the week, but it was especially nice for me to switch things up by helping out with their project, getting to see slightly different birds and habitat for the week.
Mountain Quail are spectacular. Though they do not shout "CHICAGO" like their Cali Quail relatives, they sure can belt out a good "Quork!"
Barn Swallows were nesting under this bridge, which was over a creek full of highly uninterested trout.
There were SO MANY butterflies everywhere we went. We must have hit hundreds with our truck, as they seem to gravitate toward moist surfaces...like these sandals.
This year the Juncos here are actually able to nest, as compared to last year, when there were still multiple feet of snow at many of our sites.
From the top of Burney Mountain at sunset.
Listen for the background barks
Last week I camped and point counted with Mr. Lipp in the northern regions of Lassen National Forest. We caught fish and got ripped to shreds by manzanita, so there were ups and downs to the week, but it was especially nice for me to switch things up by helping out with their project, getting to see slightly different birds and habitat for the week.
Mountain Quail are spectacular. Though they do not shout "CHICAGO" like their Cali Quail relatives, they sure can belt out a good "Quork!"
Barn Swallows were nesting under this bridge, which was over a creek full of highly uninterested trout.
There were SO MANY butterflies everywhere we went. We must have hit hundreds with our truck, as they seem to gravitate toward moist surfaces...like these sandals.
This year the Juncos here are actually able to nest, as compared to last year, when there were still multiple feet of snow at many of our sites.
From the top of Burney Mountain at sunset.
Listen for the background barks
September 9, 2011
Easterners
Saw black-throated blue, black and white, and black-throated green warblers today, along with tufted titmouse, black capped chickadees, yellow-shafted flickers, northern cardinals, yellow-bellied sapsucker, and other wicked easterners. Hiked with my bro from Amethyst Brook to Pratt Corner Road on the Robert Frost Trail.
May 24, 2011
Pinnacles
Sunday and Monday the Palomarin field station was shut down, as all of the staff and interns headed to Pinnacles National Monument for a couple days of hiking and camping. I had a really great time. Pinnacles was beautiful, the change of habitat was great, which brought on many new birds to see, and it was nice to spend time outside of the field station with much of the staff, who we don't often get time to interact.
There was A LOT of this:
And this (checking out bugs and flowers):
Some lizard catching (some kind of whiptail):
And views
It was not hot as we had hoped and kind of expected, so this reservoir at the end of of the hike was not the treat it could have been
There was A LOT of this:
And this (checking out bugs and flowers):
Some lizard catching (some kind of whiptail):
And views
It was not hot as we had hoped and kind of expected, so this reservoir at the end of of the hike was not the treat it could have been
July 12, 2010
The wildlife (and others) from Great Basin
Five ants pulling from all sides at a dead one:
Red-naped sapsucker feeding nestlings:
Red-naped taking off:
Photo by Eric Hough
Dead gopher snake:
Black rosy finch:
Photo by Eric Hough
Red crossbill with a juvenile:
Photo by Eric Hough
Red crossbill through the binoculars:
Out of focus, but cute. Five barn swallows crushed into a nest:
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