[Note that one megaton of energy would raise the temperature of one cubic kilometer of water by one degree centigrade]

First time using a new sketchbook. Hoping I can keep filling it with grisly characters #art #drawing

Clark's Grebes

Honey fungus of some sort #fungifriends

Liver Bolete found at Lake Casitas #fungifriends

They should create a burger restaurant / urgent care combo and name it Hamburgent Care 🍔

Snowy Egret after having chased off its rival 🪶🦉 #birdsky

My submission for #BirdOfTheDay is this Eared Grebe 🪶🦉

California #Towhee staying poofed #birdsky 🪶🦉

Juvenile Red Tailed Hawk looking for rabbits #birdsky 🪶🦉

Some kind of Slippery Jack ( #Suilles ) growing right out of a porta potty #fungifriends

Red #Russula (Russula rosacea) found amid coast live oak leaf litter

Female #Bufflehead 2 seconds before a dive 🪶🦉 #BirdSky

A California #Thrasher with a really long beak! 🪶🦉 #BirdSky

First #Bufflehead of the season! Always a treat to see these ducks arrive for the winter 🪶🦉

Caught two Great Horned Owls in the act! They were hootin' and hollering the whole time. #birdsky 🦉🪶 #owls

Western bluebird sitting all thrush-like against the blue sky 🪶🦉

Far-off shot of a belted kingfisher perched on a fallen tree 🦉🪶

Encountered a siege of herons today: Great Egrets, Great Blue Heron, and many sleeping night herons #birdsky 🦉🪶

Two different #Grebes for #BirdOfTheDay : a Pied-Billed and an Eared

Red tailed hawk in a eucalyptus at sunset 🦉

Greater Yellowlegs taking a dip 🦉🪶

Dead Man's foot (or Dead Man's Butt in this case) #fungifriends

Some of the first migrators who have arrived in Goleta this year are the Ruddy Ducks in their non-breeding plumage #birdsky #ducks 🪶

American #Bittern seen catching and devouring dragonflies #birdsky 🪶

Snowy Egret in a salt marsh for #BirdOfTheDay

#BirdOfTheDay Brown Pelican staring back at me while #sunlit 🪶 #birdsky

Lewis' Woodpecker looking regal in the setting sun 🪶 #birdsky

Passion fruit cheesecake! #dessertsky #cheesecake #baking

Green Heron and Red Shoulder Hawk 🪶

Gearing up for Saturday #NoKings #Protest

Shaggy mane pushing up through the dirt in the Santa Barbara foothills #fungifrienda

Clathrus ruber #fungifriends #stinkhorn

Goleta CA after the rain #socal #aprilshowers

A western giant puffball (Calvatia Booniana) growing straight out of the middle of a well worn trail #fungifriends #puffball

My first bolete find! Not sure what kind it is #fungifriends #bolete

You will find me chained to a tree and your chainsaw motors full of sugar #handsoff #april5th #resist #logging #nationalforests

Chanterelles! Wait- no. Jack-o'-lanterns (Omphalotus olivascens) 🫣 #fungifriends #mushroom

Rainy day forage among the oak trees. Found lots of amanitas! #FungiFriends #mushroom #amanita

Black Elfin Saddle (Helvella Dryophila) #mushroom #mycology

Found this Russula 'neath a coastal live oak #mushroom

I was so excited to find a big patch of mushrooms growing beneath an oak! Upon close inspection my excitement turned to disappointment to realize they were destroying angels #mushroom #amanita

The Cooper's hawks are coming back to their nest #birds 🪶

Band-tailed Pigeon (Patagioenas fasciata) at El Capitan State Beach. These would poo truckloads on our tent after gorging themselves on nightshade berries #birds 🪶

Mr President, there's been a second toe sucking video

Depesh Mode more like Depress Mode

Enjoyed a milkshake from Mel's drive-in with my Valentine

Tronald Dump's next reincarnation will be as that pitcher plant that eats mountain shrew shit

Loggerhead shrike at the UCSB lagoon 🪶

Hooded merganser at Alice Kek Garden whom I saw swallow two whole crawfish 🪶