Natural History Wanderings

Calphoto has the following new report for Ring Mountain in Tiburon in Marin County

Buckeye butterflies, fence lizards, giant bumblebees flitting around Purple sanicles,Poppies, Blue Eyed Grass, Onion (most in seed, seeds are fun to shoot) Johnny Tuck, Chinese houses, Yarrow, Tidytips, Tarweed, goldfields, Tomcat clover, Soaproot (fowers after 4pm) Seep Spring Monkey flower, Hill lotus, Buttercups, Fals, Lupine, Buckwheats, flax, white lupine, phacelia, delphinium and if that isnt enough there is a redtail cruising the area, she got really close to me and a couple other hikers. Of course I was trying to photograph a butterfly whe the hawk flewover my head (figures).  No Tiburon Mariposa Tulips yet. Two weeks away minimum.

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