Maybe 12 inches long at best. Was warming in the sun on the Guadalupe river trail near Ulistac Natural Area
Big Lake, McArthur
This post for the dragonfly, the biting fly is in a separate post
Dead with all it's leaves on. One of 3 dead Live Oak trees I saw standing like this.
An American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos), photographed at the Ulistac Natural Area in Santa Clara, CA.
On Serpentine Rock, this one plant with yellow flowers stood out in a field of orange flowering poppies.
trying to catch something, but coming with a beak full of debris that it discarded.
When I photographed a Grebe eating a Crayfish about a week or two ago now, I figured it was a rare thing to see, but evidently I was wrong.
Heard full voiced vocalization
attacking an Anise Swallowtail