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Succulent-like, reminds of yucca, but more bush, less tree. Big purple knob of ...
Sea Lions at Pier 39, Fisherman's Wharf -
Saw this beautiful flower hiking the Lands End Trail in
This tree with flowers is in Levi Park, San ...
An Iris of some sort?
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Seen near the Palace of Fine Arts in San ...
Humpback whale seen off the waters of Farallon Islands near
Spotted this on a hike in the Presidio in
Pigeon Guillemot sighted at Farallon Islands near SF,
At the CA academy of science
A bird to be seen in the full sun, the male Brewer’s Blackbird is a glossy, ...
Spotted in the Osher Rainforest at the California Academy of Sciences.
Tiny insects that can be overlooked unless they are in big numbers. They feed ...
This is the species of heron listed as nesting in the island. I presume these ...
Singing in the shadow of a tree in the garden located in the back side of the ...
Long, slender, black beak. About a foot and a half in height. Tips of feathers ...
A large brownish-gray goose with black head and a white patch that runs from ...
I am not sure if this is an Eastern or Western grey squirrel. Wikipedia says ...
4˝ – Upperparts green, underparts grayish. Male (shown): Iridescent ...
Park. Great blue herons have been nesting at Stow Lake in cypress trees since ...
The Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus) is a medium-sized hawk. Its breeding ...
There were dozens of these Painted Lady butterflies feeding on the flower ...
Purple stems, leaves palmate/lobed, margins entire. Calyx reminds me of other ...
Scrophulariaceae. Usually a deeply-mat-forming subshrub. Flowers many, in ...
A bit scrawny, these two chicks were half hidden among the bushes. The other ...
The prisonners grew a garden in the back side of the island.Only a few species ...
This was one of the plants in the prisonners garden that is mentioned as ...
6" long, darker brown, lighter green stripe on top, down the length of the ...
Mostly Red with bands of black and white. Mistaken for (nonvenomous)Milk Snake ...
iphone photo of a young Cooper's Hawk hovering above The Presidio,
Claude, the California Academy of Sciences albino alligator.
Tibouchina heteromalla reaches an average height of 30–40 cm in its native ...