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This guy must reeeeeeeeeeeealy like cactus flowers

This guy was very unhappy about something

Another new one to the arb -- a handsome cowbird couple checking out accommodations

08 June Got a kestrel today, another first for me -- and at the arboretum, the last place I'd expect it. She landed high up in a palm and was preening, until a pair of orioles and a mockingbird drove her away.

A good shot, not brilliant, but it works for me as a memento of our baby hawk adventure

Messua limbata v californicus (I think) I am now reliably informed by Lenny the Spider Guy (registered trademark) that my spider is a Oxyopes salticus or striped lynx. I have lots of green lynx about, but this is a new one.

I thought this was a golden California jumping spider (Messua limbata v californicus), but the pedipalps are way too large and the legs are spined. Have to check with the campus spider guy and see what the heck it is -- anyone here good with the beasties?