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I'm Ryan M. Tech geek. Avgeek. California Native plant gardener. All photos on this blog, unless stated otherwise, are mine. Cameras: Fujifilm X-T5 and X100V. Views are my own.

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    From a few weekends ago: this bird was exceedingly far from me and so was mysterious to me until I downloaded its photo from the camera. I was VERY surprised to find a Belted Kingfisher. Yeah, you’ll need to tap into the photo to see it well... #BeltedKingfisher #Birds #BirdPhotography #BlackButteReservoir #CropToZoom #Fujifilm #SOoCA Belted Kingfisher, with its cool blue-gray mohawk & cape, along with white cheaks, neck, and chest, studies the distance to its right, while perched on a utility line. Behind it are various blurred trees and some powerlines.

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    Backyard Hooded Oriole alert! #HoodedOriole #BirdPhotography #Yarden #Fujifilm #CropToZoom #SOoC

    Atop a wooden stake is perched a Hooded Oriole, looking to the left, with its bright orange body, black kerchief, wings with black and white stripes, and a somewhat visible cape of brown with black spots. Its tail is black. The background is just off white blur.A front facing Hooded Oriole perched on a Ceanothus branch with many green leaves. Its black kerchief is prominent.

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    A Say’s Phoebe at Black Butte Reservoir, California

    #SaysPhoebe #Birds #BirdPhotography #BlackButteReservoir #Fujifilm #CropToZoom #SOoCA flat headed Say's Phoebe bird, looking to the right, is colored brown all over with an orange belly, is perched on an oak branch, looking over a bough of oak leaves. The bird has a slight glint in its eyes and its front is sunlit. The background is bokeh of dried grass.

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    This basking serpent committed the most natural of acts just before #GopherSnake #ReptilePhotography #BlackButteReservoir #Fujifilm #SOoC

    Upon a gravelly surface, a tan and black gopher snake rests its head on a horizontal reed, next to a clump of dead weed stems.

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    We went out to Black Butte Reservoir (west of Chico, CA) today and I finally photographed a Rock Wren! #RockWren #Birds #BirdPhotography #BlackButteReservoir #Fujifilm #SOoC

    A long-beaked Rock Wren is posing, chest toward the camera, on some old dead wood, surrounded by twigs. It has a black spotted face and neck with some linear traces of black on its chest. It has a black stripe going from its eye to the back of its head. Its beak is long and narrow.

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    Got a few bird photos from the backyard today. A Yellow Rumped Warbler and a White-Crowned Sparrow. We’ve been invaded by the Yellow-Rumped Warblers and it’s amazing to see them enjoy our plentiful insects and, occasionally, dried elderberries. These are cropped.  #YellowRumpedWarbler #WhiteCrownedSparrow #Birds #BirdPhotography #Fujifilm #CropToZoom

    A Yellow-Rumped Warbler takes a drink from a bird bath. It is dipping down toward the water, and its beak is just reflected in the water. Its white wingbars are visible but it only has a splash of yellow.A White Crowned Sparrow is standing between two branches of a Ceanothus bush. Its looking to the left. It is showing off signature black head with bright white stripes.

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    I don’t know what kind of spider this is, but it was pretty daring to be out in the open at Point Reyes National Seashore (late September). Most of these were in their day-time hideouts, tucked up in a shrub branch. #Arachtober #Spiders  #PointReyesNationalSeashore #Fujifilm #SOoC

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    Here is a contented White Crown Sparrow gorging on seeds from a plant I haven’t identified. #WhiteCrownSparrow #Birds #PointReyesNationalSeashore #Fujifilm #SOoC

    A close up of a White Crown sparrow that is facing left, getting ready to tuck into some seeds with tufted tops like a dandelion but much denser, almost like cotton. Its head is prominently stripped white above its eye with a black top of the head,

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    Bull Elk at Point Reyes National Seashore. I had some trouble focusing, but I like the meal hanging out of his mouth #BullElk #WildlifePhotography #PointReyesNationalSeashore #Fujifilm #SOoCA Bull Elk is walking to the left in a field of dried grass and forbs. It has a bunch grass or some other vegetation hanging out of his mouth. He has very long antlers with five points. The sky is clear but hazy.

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    BLEP. #Blep #Deer #WildlifePhotography #PointReyesNationalSeashore #Fujifilm #SOoCA partial body shot of a young deer, looking to the right, with its tongue sticking out: BLEP. The background is all blur of brown vegetation, with a bit of green. The young deer has debris on its back, probably grass seeds. Its neck and head seem a bit small for its body. Poor thing.

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