Rocky Point - Kelso Valley Road

28 October 2008

Looking for dragonflies - here are the plants and animals that appeared before my lens that day.

English plantain - Plantago major

28 October 08

California Tortoiseshell - Nymphalis californica

28 October 08

Spur-Throated Grasshopper - Melanoplus spp.

28 October 08

Coyote Tobacco - Nicotiana attenuata

28 October 08

Marine Blue - Leptotes marina

28 October 08

Seven-spotted Lady Beetle

28 October 08

Water speedwell - Veronica anagallis-aquatica

28 October 08

Queen - Danaus gilippus

28 October 08

Quick black fly - Wohlfahrtia? on rubber rabbitbrush - Ericameria nauseosa

28 October 08

honeybee - Apis mellifera

28 October 08

Dapper Hopper - Melanoplus yarrowii (female)

28 October 08

Cow Clover - Trifolium wormskioldii

28 October 08

Bewick's Wren

28 October 08

False Downy Monkeyflower - Mimetanthe pilosa

28 October 08

Chia - Salvia columbariae

28 October 08

Watercress - Nasturtium officinale

28 October 08

Acmon Blue - Plebejus acmon

28 October 08

Dapper Hopper - Melanoplus yarrowii (male)

28 October 08

Red-stemmed filaree - Erodium cicutarium

28 October 08

American Rubyspot - Hetaerina americana

28 October 08

Pacific Chorus Frog - Pseudacris (Hyla) regilla

28 October 08

Pacific Chorus Frog - Pseudacris (Hyla) regilla

28 October 08

California Spreadwing - Archilestes californica

28 October 08

Salt Heliotrope - Heliotropium curassavicum

28 October 08

Fringed willowherb - Epilobium ciliatum

28 October 08

Vivid Dancer - Argia vivida

28 October 08

Walker's Darner - Aeshna walkeri

28 October 08

Variegated Meadowhawk - Sympetrum corruptum

28 October 08

Pallid-winged Grasshopper - Trimerotropis pallidipennis

28 October 08

Orange Sulfur - Colias eurytheme

28 October 08

Painted Lady - Vanessa cardui

28 October 08

California sunflower - Helianthus californicus

28 October 08

Slim aster - Aster subulatus

28 October 08

American Rubyspot - Hetaerina americana

26 October 08

Hoary "Zephyr" Comma - Polygonia gracilis

28 October 08

 
 

BIRDS

California Quail

American Kestrel

Mourning Dove

Nuttall's Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Northern Flicker

Western Scrub-Jay

Common Raven

Bushtit

Oak Titmouse

Bewick's Wren

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Western Bluebird

Yellow-rumped Warbler

California Towhee

Song Sparrow

White-crowned Sparrow

House Finch

Lesser Goldfinch

Amphibians

Pacific Chorus Frog

Reptiles

Western Fence Lizard

Butterflies

Red Admiral
Painted Lady
West Coast Lady
Monarch
Queen
Acmon Blue
Marine Blue
California Tortoiseshell
Hoary Comma
Juba Skipper
Cabbage White
Clouded Sulfur

Dragonflies

Walker's Darner
Common Darner
Variegated Meadowhawk

Damselflies

American Rubyspot - Hetaerina americana
California Spreadwing - Archilestes californica
Vivid Dancer - Argia vivida

Blooming Plants

Rubber Rabbitbrush - Ericameria nauseosa
Chia - Salvia columbariae
English plantain - Plantago major
Watercress - Nasturtium officinale
Water speedwell - Veronica anagallis-aquatica
Fringed willowherb - Epilobium ciliatum
Coyote Tobacco - Nicotiana attenuata
False Downy Monkeyflower - Mimetanthe pilosa
Cow Clover - Trifolium wormskioldii
Red-stemmed filaree - Erodium cicutarium
Short-podded Mustard - Hirschfeldia incana
Brewer's Bitter-cress - Cardamine breweri
Salt Heliotrope - Heliotropium curassavicum
Slim aster - Aster subulatus
California sunflower - Helianthus californicus
western goldenrod - Euthamia occidentalis
Rocky Mountain pussytoes - Antennaria media

  

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