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Sora added to BFS Bird List

We have a new addition to the BFS Bird List — the Sora (Porzana carolina). The Sora is a small, secretive bird of freshwater marshes and is most often found in cattails and bulrushes, where it forages for snails, small crustaceans, insects, and seeds. At the BFS it was seen foraging among the cattails between […]

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Tarantula!

Look who was spotted crossing the main east-west road yesterday evening! This new addition to our invert list is a male fall-breeding California native tarantula, Aphonopelma eutylenum – the California Ebony Tarantula. It is more accurately called Aphonopelma “eutylenum type” as this species has been described by several different validly published names. In the fall, […]

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During her regular monthly BFS bird survey on July 4, Prof. Cathy McFadden spotted a new addition to the BFS Bird List – three Eurasian Collared-Doves, Streptopelia decaocto, flying over the HMC property, possibly coming out of the old toad pool area. Originally native to India, Eurasian Collared-Doves spread into Turkey and the Balkans in […]

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Three new insect families

Some recent insect photography expeditions have turned up a number of new additions for our BFS Invert List. We have yet to sort through all our photos, but we have so far turned up representatives of three new insect families – Stratiomyidae (Soldier Flies), Chrysopidae (Green Lacewings), and Melyridae (Soft-winged Flower Beetles). Soldier Flies (Stratiomyidae) […]

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We have nine new additions to the BFS invert list: Dactylopius sp. (Cochineal) Our first addition is an insect that any casual observer might notice at the BFS, but it had somehow been overlooked in our list making – Cochineal (Dactylopius sp.) – that white cottony stuff on Opuntia sp. cacti (Prickly-Pear or Indian-Fig): Dactylopius […]

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Two new tiny inverts

We’ve added two new tiny cuties (at least we think they’re cute!) to our BFS Invert List. Harsi Parker and I spotted these at the BFS on January 16. (To be truthful, Harsi did all the spotting, photographing, and identifying. I held things for photographs.) We found the first in a Coast Live Oak along […]

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Prof. Cathy McFadden and Paul Clarke recorded a new species at BFS this morning. They spotted “a Peregrine Falcon rapidly leaving the east field with a California Towhee in its talons and a very upset Cooper’s Hawk hot on its tail!” The Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) was previously on both the Federal and California Endangered […]

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A Bee in a Pine-Bush

In the fall most of the BFS is brown and sere until the rains come, but a few species of plants bloom profusely at this seemingly inauspicious time. One of these is Pine-Bush, Ericameria pinifolia – the shrubs with bright yellow flowers dotting the landscape now. A few weeks ago Harsi Parker and I spotted […]

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In an earlier post reporting addition of nearly 100 new taxa to the BFS Invertebrate List, I mentioned that we’d feature some of them in future posts. Well, that number is now well over 100, but here’s a run-down on one group of new additions — butterflies… So far in 2010 we’ve added nine new […]

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We have another new addition to the BFS Bird List – the Spotted Sandpiper, Actitis macularia, which was spotted at pHake Lake on September 25. It’s perhaps a little surprising that they haven’t been spotted at the BFS before. They’re the most widespread breeding sandpiper in North America, and in this area they’re common in […]

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