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| Trude | profile | all galleries >> seasons_of_nature_autumn >> autumn_at_riley_wilderness_park_2009 | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
 Late morning walk near the Santa Ana mountains |
 Autumn colors of Audubon's Cottontail |
 Animal runway, this road most travelled |
 Counted TWELVE mule deer in this herd (not all in view here) |
 As morning progressed, reptiles emerged |
 To sun themselves (Western Fence Lizard) |
 and Western Whiptail |
 Armored Stink Beetle (not a bug) |
 Warm enough for Western Pygmy Blue Butterfly to sun |
 And sip on Russian Thistle flowers (tumbleweed) |
 Harvester Ants active |
 Discarding seed husks outside their burrow |
 Coyote Brush in flower. California Buckwheat gone to seed in background. |
 Soft flowers of Coyote Brush (like a coyote's tail!) |
 Milkweed seeds ready to disperse |
 Telegraph Weed still with a few flowers |
 Say's Phoebe perches and looks for prey |
 Prey like flies and other insects |
 Say's Phoebe swoops down to capture them |
 And flies back to another perch to wait for more |
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| Ali Majdfar | 09-Nov-2009 07:40 | |