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Pine Flat Rd, early summer 2020

1/13/2021

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PictureMale Western tanager, Pine Flat Rd, Healdsburg.
Pine Flat Rd was seriously burned during the Kincade fire from the year before.  However, there were small pockets of brush and trees that were mostly unscathed. Stopping in one of these areas, I found a multitude of birds, probably due to the otherwise scarcity of living foliage in the area.

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Male western tanager, June 2020
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Another view, same bird, but perched in an adjacent wooded area exhibiting more burned trees.
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Immature western tanager, Pine Flat Rd, Healdsburg.
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This area is also noteworthy for its wildflowers, which still did not disappoint, even after the fire. These are red thistle, sometimes called venus thistle.
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This might be ruby chalice clarkia, pine flat road Healdsburg
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Also in the same area, a family of Hairy Woodpeckers, this is the male.
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Male hairy woodpecker, Pine Flat Rd Healdsburg.
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Female or juvenile hairy woodpecker, June 2020
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Female or juvenile hairy woodpecker
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Another view, female or juvenile hairy woodpecker, Pine Flat Rd
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Western blue-eyed grass, Pine Flat Rd
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Briefly scurrying by, a white-breasted nuthatch.
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Showy Penstemon wildflower
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There were also a pair of nesting lazuli buntings, with an active nest. Here is the female approaching the nest with a meal.
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Carefully keeping an eye on the photographer, female Lazuli Bunting gets closer to her nest, Pine Flat Rd, summer 2020
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Nearby, the male Lazuli Bunting, Pine Flat Rd
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Red monkey flowers near the creek area, Pine Flat Rd
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In the same mostly unscathed wooded area along Pine Flat Rd, a Cassin's vireo as well.
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A Great Mullein wildflower, good place to see these plants, Pine Flat Rd Healdsburg.
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A perky blue-gray gnatcatcher was finding good hunting in the more burned section of this small area along the road.
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On the lower part of Pine Flat Rd, a small flock of orange-crowned warblers.
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Female purple martin, lower middle section of Pine Flat Rd - perhaps looking for new nesting, the area where they were nesting before was in the severely burned out areas from the Kincade Fire of 2019.
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