by Marisela De Santa Anna | Aug 5, 2021 | Blog
Wild rose with honey bee gathering pollen and nectar. A beautiful stand of Western goldenrod, Euthamia occidentalis. The flowers and wide fuzzy leaves of Showy milkweed, Asclepias speciosa. The flowers of the narrow leaf milkweed, Asclepias fascicularis. Native...
by Marisela De Santa Anna | Jul 8, 2021 | Blog
A Tule elk cow mother with her spotted calf. This Black-tailed deer buck has velvet antlers. A juvenile Black bear crossing Outlet creek. A large bull Tule elk with large velvet antlers. This Red-shouldered hawk took a solitary bath in Outlet Creek. July 6th, 2021...
by Marisela De Santa Anna | Jun 29, 2021 | Blog
American Kestrel nesting box built by Caltrans contractors on the Willits Bypass Mitigation lands. This is one of the Barn owl, Tyto alba, nesting boxes on the east side of the bypass viaduct. Some European Starlings, Sturnus vulgaris, were using it to rest on, when...
by Marisela De Santa Anna | Jun 16, 2021 | Blog
Wyethia angustifolia, blooming on the mitigation seasonal wet meadow. A large number of Narrow leaf mule ears bloomed this year and the pollinators appreciated them! This native bumble bee, Bombus vasrienskii, the Yellow faced bumble, I was able to tell it was a male...
by Marisela De Santa Anna | Jun 2, 2021 | Blog
Grassshopper sparrow, Ammodramus savannarum, doing what they love to do best, sitting on top of a fence post singing its wheezy insect-like song. Western Meadowlark, Sternella neglecta, with nesting material in its beak. Probably its second round of nesting for the...
by Marisela De Santa Anna | May 4, 2021 | Blog
Male Brown-headed Cowbird, Molothris ater. Female Brown-headed Cowbird, it does not have the distinctive brown head. Three male cowbirds, one has his head pointed to the sky, a common sighting in the spring. There is a lot of activity in the spring including a dance...
