@wildmarin I would love for you to ID this observation. Thank you!
I apologize for the quality of the photos. As you can see, there is a white turkey. I am fairly sure that it is leucistic or something similar.
found outside the Clem Miller Environmental Education Center by @audreyorum whose pink shirt is reflected in the beetle's shell
Dark morph Swainson's hawk - long, pointed wings with four primaries; brown head; faintly streaked tail with brownish terminal band; dark body and wings contrasting with paler undertail coverts; "comma" distal to carpal area of wings is just visible in photo; dark forewing contrasts slightly with paler hind wing. Soaring around over wetlands.
this dark-morph Swainson's hawk was about half a mile away and being pestered by a blackbird. I didn't think i'd get a decent enough shot to ID it, but with the help of the folks below, it seems pretty clear. Not an eagle which is what I thought it was at first. Even better.
I'm not sure of this ID - never seen this species before, but I can't see any other options that seem similar. the "hairy shoulders" seem pretty distinctive, as does the tail shape
ID by @alan_rockefeller on California Mushroom Identification Forum on FB
Interesting if true.
saw several of these tiny "cotton balls" on mt. tam. this one was along the matt davis trail, btwn. the coastal trail & pan toll. - any ideas who made it & whose home this is? maybe a tarantula home