walking the perimeter | sage-grouse pellets just outside the burn area |
Wishful Blinking
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Wishful BlinkingAlas, not a firefly,But the lights of a car passing by.Eric
R. Eaton
1 week ago
A blog about my adventures as a Wildlife Biologist for BLM in Bishop, CA
walking the perimeter | sage-grouse pellets just outside the burn area |
grouse sign | a cool caterpillar |
datalogger weighted down with a rock | frisky damselflies |
tui chub pool reflecting the Inyos | tarantula hawk on Asclepias fascicularis narrow-leaf milkweed |
bisected circle a common design | |
a celestial or map? | |
desert spiny lizard Sceloporus magister | |
zebra-tailed lizard Callisaurus draconoides rhodostictus |
Lupinus breweri Brewer's lupine | Triteleia ixioides pretty face |
Castilleja lemmonii subalpine paintbrush (with buddy !) | Elizabeth Lake beneath Unicorn Peak |
Dodecatheon jeffreyi Jeffrey's shooting-star | Lembert Dome from Tuolomne Meadow |
Half Dome from Olmsted Point | Tenaya Lake from Olmsted Point |
transect 1 | using the laser |
Great Basin spadefoot toad metamorph | camera setup outside a pygmy rabbit burrow |
the habitat | |
blooming cholla |
Sidalcea oregana bog mallow | spotted towhee nest |
Aquilegia pubescens alpine columbine | Aquilegia formosa x Aquilegia pubescens |
Sedum lanceolatum narrow-leaf stonecrop | Castilleja linariifolia long-leaved paintbrush |
crossing Lake George's outlet | lodgepole chipmunk (Tamias speciosus) shows the way |
golden-mantled ground squirrel Spermophilus lateralis, SPELAT | Phyllodoce breweri red heather |
Mt. Haeckel from Emerald Lakes | yellow-bellied marmot Marmota flaviventris |
Thompson Ridge, Blue Lake | clouds reflected in Blue Lake |