The start of Spring Bloom in our garden
Every day more and more California poppies are opening up in the garden. They are so brilliantly colored and cheerful, as they gently bob...
Butterfly visitors
Oh butterflies, how we missed you! Here a Common Hairstreak Strymon melinus is checking the blossom of a ground cover plant next to the...
And suddenly this appears
As we were having breakfast, we heard a big thump on the roof. I assumed that the neighborhood crows were being extra rambunctious. Then...
Vivid Dancer
Today I observed for the first time this year a Vivid Dancer Argia vivida. It is a female in the pale gynomorphic form, which is black...
Whew! Close call...
While standing in our front yard today, observing bees in the Ray Hartman ceanothus, I heard rustling sounds in our next door neighbor's...
Bees on the Chiapas Sage
You know that Spring truly is here when different bees arrive. This is a Habropoda digger bee female foraging for pollen in a blossom on...
Cedar Waxwings feeding on berries
When the cedar waxwings eat, they feed in large groups. The waxwings are eating berries on a tree that my neighbor calls the volunteer...
Happy first day of Spring
Here is the first blossoming stem on the Hummingbird Sage Salvia spathacea. Such a lovely pink among the green foliage and dried...
A Dandelion Reminder
Leave those dandelions alone! They are an early nectar source for bees emerging from their nests. Here is a wonderful video from Little...
American Robin eating Ivy Berries
English ivy is invasive and tries to take over our fences and hedges. We removed the ivy completely from one fence, and are now trying to...
