Cool orange headed beetles on our milkweed today #Beetles #InsectPhotography #Milkweed #NativePlants #Yarden #Fujifilm
From this morning, a Cranefly on a Milkweed leaf #Cranefly #Milkweed #NativePlants #Yarden
Colorado's outdoor companies are buckling under Trump trade war:
“I’m the U.S. manufacturer using U.S.-made materials and Trump is putting me out of business,” she says. “We figured out U.S. manufacturing and we figured out how to take care of our people and it came crashing down. I’m doing everything Trump wants but we are being punished by this tariff bullshit.”
#USPol
Ospreys are amazing. Last week, before our eyes, one plunged into Black Butte lake and caught a fish!
#Osprey #Birds #BirdPhotography #BlackButteLake #Fujifilm #SOoC
You got this #WrensDay #SacramentoWildlifeRefuge #Birds #BirdPhotography #Fujifim #SOoC
At Black Butte Lake this last Saturday, we were treated by a flying formation of American White Pelicans. They are captivating flyers. #AmericanWhitePelican #BlackButteLake #BirdPhotography #Birds #Fujifilm #SOoC
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Yesterday: Damselfly and a Mosquito at Black Butte Lake #Damselfly #BlackButteLake #Fujifilm #SOoC
Spectacular day at Black Butte Lake today #BlackButteLake #Fujifilm #SOoC
Okay, dilapidated front yard sprinkler valve assembly is removed and system capped off. The water line diverged before the valve assembly so I simply capped it off after the T so the backyard assembly and hose bib still gets water. PVC primer & cement hardly used and will go bad before next need 😜
My latest project is to remove one entire unused sprinkler valve assembly. Took a bit of care excavating but now I know to cut four pipes and cap at least the inlet (the pipe coming from the bottom of the photo). In a perfect world, I’d remove the three PVC runs into the front yard (mostly native plants there & no lawn!) but that’s a lot of work for no practical good payoff whatsoever. #yarden
Dad and Son Crash Underwater Drone Into Unexploded World War II Bomb | PetaPixel:
The cops asked them for all the footage for analysis and later discovered the bomb they had found was a Nazi SC 500 — a bomb commonly dropped during the prolonged raids of British cities by the German Luftwaffe in the winter of 1940/41, better known as the Blitz.
Bushtit!
#Bushtit #Birds #SacramentoWildlifeRefuge #Fujifilm #SOoC
Towhees are all the rage right now, so here’s one busy looking for food at the Refuge’s parking area #CaliforniaTowhee #Birds #BirdPhotography #SacramentoWildlifeRefuge #Fujifilm #SOoC
AirlineReporter has a JFK to Singapore flight report up! World’s longest flight.
Loggerhead shrike from the Refuge the other weekend #LoggerheadShrike #Birds #BirdPhotography #SacramentoWildlifeRefuge #Fujifilm #SOoC

Flew from Orland-Haigh Field (O37) to San Francisco International in the Beaver, and ATC told me to taxi to the Coast Guard hanger but it’s been DOGE’d. Closed and locked. #JokingNotJoking #XPlane #FlightSim #ThrandaDHC2 #USPol

X-Plane 12.2 beta is out and it’s nice. It fixes dark cockpits, greatly improves atmospherics, improves clouds (again), and includes a scenery recut with my work on three airports: O09 (Round Valley, California), O37 (Orland Haigh Field, California), Dug Bar USFS. #XPlane #FlightSim #macOS
For the first time, I repaired a sliding glass door screen today. The old synthetic one had weakened significantly from UV and recently took a knee. The new mesh is aluminum. It was a bit brittle but I like that it is UV proof.
I was feeling left out, so please enjoy the Black-Necked Stilts in lieu of penguins. #BlackNeckedStilts #Birds #SacramentoWildlifeRefuge #Fujifilm #SOoC