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| Trude | profile | all galleries >> seasons_of_nature_autumn >> autumn_at_santiago_oaks_2008 | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
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 Typical autumn colors (Yellow-rumped Warbler and Coast Live Oak) |
 Golds, yellows, tans (Umber Skipper) |
 Poison Oak turns red now |
 Hillside burned recently but this is California Gold! |
 Flame Skimmer |
 Painted Lady (with left hindwing missing) |
 Buckeye shows more autumn color |
 Toyon berries turn from green to orange to red |
 Gray Hairstreak with a touch of autumn orange on Calif. Golden Bush |
 Northern White Skipper on Calif Golden Bush |
 Western Forktail Damselfly |
 Vivid Dancer damselfly |
 Blue Cuckoo Wasp |
 Armored Stink Beetle |
 All these insects attract insect-eaters (Side-blotched Lizard juvenile sheds its skin) |
 Western Fence Lizard on the lookout for bugs for lunch |
 Fascinated by a flock of foraging Cassin's Kingbirds in the oaks |
 They ate a wasp, acorn parts, and Tiger Swallowtail |
 Wrentit also foraged and picked a pysllid off a leaf |
 Sorry to startle a Great Blue Heron from its creekbed roost |
 Flock of inquisitive Turkey Vultures checked us out |
 Downy Woodpecker shows white on its back instead of Nuttall's Woodpecker's black and white |
 Burned Lemonadeberry regrowing |
 Should have known Goat Hill would be STEEP up and down |
 Elderberry light |
 Willow reflection |
 Waterfall over oldest dam in Orange County |
 Tail End, so get out and hike before autumn disappears! |
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