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Purple Nightshade (Solanum anti) Note the yellow stamens.
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Twin berry (Lonicera involucrata) on Coon Creek Trail
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Morning Glory (Calystegiaw spp.) showing white anthers and stigma.
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Sticky Monkey Flower (Mimulus aurantiacus) Stigma with pollen (Click on image to see the pollen) This is the flower that gave MDO (Mountain of Gold) its name.
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Sticky Phacelia (Phacelia viscida) Anthers
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Dendromecon spp. (Bush Poppy) Found in the Holloway Garden and the Coon Creek Trail, and other places.
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This Darkling Beetle (Tenebrionidae), the Western Gull, and I made the trip to Valencia today.
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Another beautiful view from Valencia today.
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Hard to believe this Western Gull was with me today on top of Valencia Peak.
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Lunch time on top of Valencia Peak.
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Amazing how this "Frog" jumped right into our state flower!
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View from Valencia - What a treat on this windy day.
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Saw Toothed Goldenbush (Hazardia squarrosa) on Valencia. Easy to see how it got its common name. Neat to see the flowers too.
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Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus)
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Robin strutting its stuff.
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Yellow Headed Black Birds @ Merced Wild Life Reserve. Not a bird that you see every day.
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Sandhill Crane In-Flight.
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Shoveler
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Pintail
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View on the way up Broderson.
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This is Phainopepla "Poop", which is something I had never seen before. Amazing to me that it can pile that high!
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Indian Pink (Silene laciniata)
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Horkelia (Horkelia cuneata)
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Variable Checkerspot (Euphydryas chalcedony) Click on the butterfly to see neat detail.