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8/5/2014

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BOBCAT!  We almost bumped into each other - he was so well camouflaged, and I was walking in a part of the orchard where no one ever walks, so he could never expect to meet up with a human or other such critter most likely.
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Bobcat in the open field where apple trees were removed last year, lower orchard
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Bobcat, moving rather reluctantly away...
I had been working my way towards this little back area, where farmland ends and a small isolated woodland exists...here there were some lesser goldfinches eating wild thistle seeds as well as other grass seeds...
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Lesser goldfinch eating thistle seed
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First you have to pull out all the fuzzy parts...
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Male lesser goldfinch
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Female lesser goldfinch, eating seed grasses
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Western bluebird juvenile






Walking past the entrance to the farm, one of the juvenile bluebirds sat on the wire fence.
After that, this small bushtit flock flew with me as I walked back to the house, just coincidentally.
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Bushtit in a woodland oak tree
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Bushtit
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Bushtit, in poison oak bush
Below, this bushtit looks like it is using one of its feet like a hand, to hold a seed pod.  Not sure how this bird is actually supporting itself in this photo except for hanging from the seed pod or poison oak berry by one leg.
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Bushtit
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Acorn woodpecker on an old tree top branch
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