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Into the mist!
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Many pocket gopher mounds dot the surface of road F.
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Unidentified soil structure
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Leptogium sp.
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Spiderweb with dewdrops
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Toxicodendron diversilobum, WESTERN POISON OAK.
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Twisty oak branches stand out in the mist
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This is the season when moss and lichen are at their best
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This is the season when moss and lichen are at their best
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This is the season when moss and lichen are at their best
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Neotoma fuscipes, DUSKY-FOOTED WOOD RAT nest
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Funnel-web spider webs, covered with dewdrops
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Funnel-web spider web, covered with dewdrops
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Phoradendron leucarpum ssp. tomentosum (P. serotinum ssp. t.; P. villosum), AMERICAN MISTLETOE
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Misty view south from Road F.
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Bombycilla cedrorum, CEDAR WAXWING
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Bombycilla cedrorum, CEDAR WAXWING feeding on mistletoe
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dark clumps of mistletoe stand out now that the oaks have lost their leaves
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New leaves already formed on Quercus lobata, VALLEY OAK/ROBLE.
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Branch must have broken and then been whipped around by wind, leaving it looking like it had been tied on.
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More mist ahead!
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Quercus lobata, VALLEY OAK/ROBLE.
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Circus cyaneus, NORTHERN HARRIER, hunting.
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Starting down trail 9.
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*Bellardia trixago, MEDITERRANEAN LINSEED. showing new growth
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Track of Felis rufus, BOBCAT
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View from trail 9 towards trail 10
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Ceanothus oliganthus var. sorediatus, JIM BRUSH.
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Remains of manzanita berries in unidentified scat.
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Unidentified lichen on surface of trail 9.
