June 2020

This appears to be a teenager European starling telling the parent to “stop controlling my life.”

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Bumblebee

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Osprey

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Globe gilia aka blue-thimble-flower

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Black-headed grosbeak

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Cedar waxwing

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Great blue heron

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Great blue heron, in a more fanciful moment

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This bushtit (please read that as carefully as I typed it) is tiny and doesn’t stay put for long. I’m glad to get a decent picture of one. They spurt about in flocks and are usually just a bunch of little blurs!

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Garter snake

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In 1951, schoolchildren chose the American goldfinch as the state bird of Washington, where it is also called the willow goldfinch.

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Bumblebee

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My friend flicker

Northern flicker

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“Thistle do nicely.” I once saw a shop in Edinburgh with that name.

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Steller’s jay

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Crow & Douglas fir

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Guilty of being cute

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European starling

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Pear tree

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How the song sparrow got its name

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It’s getting harder to tell the babies from the parents!

Canada geese

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Rufous hummingbird

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Ladybug

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Violet-green swallow

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Spotted towhee

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Eight-spotted skimmer

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Anna’s hummingbird

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American robin in a wild cherry tree

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Steller’s jay

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This California scrub-jay is learning to read. Today’s letter is M.

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