Sally's

The Farallones endemic subspecies of the Arboreal Salamander:


And the Farallon Cricket:

SW fest

Bushtit


Black Phoebe with a dragonfly in mouth


Female western bluebird with huge cricket of some sort

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