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Suzy and Maggie Rudy had a good day hunting the choice, edible King Boletes. They lined them up in a row - all fourteen of them - and Maggie took this photo.

King Boletes are also called Porcini. Delicious!

Remember, when picking wild mushrooms, to gather them in a open-weave basket, not a plastic bag. This way you will be helping disseminate the spores of the mushrooms.

Thanks to Maggie for allowing me to share her photo with you here.

It's been mild today with no wind, temps in the 60s. Clouds are pouring in and rain is predicted tomorrow, Friday. I've recorded 4.05 inches of rain so far this season.

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Gail Jackson photographed what we think is a young Coyote. See if you can spot him or her in Gail's photo.

I wonder how Gail knew a Coyote was in the brush! Here's a close-up of the Coyote.

Thanks to Gail for allowing me to share her photos with you here. To see much more of Gail's nature photography, here is the link to her website: https://gailyimages.com/

It's stormy on the Mendonoma Coast today! I bet the mushrooms are loving the rain.

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We've been seeing lots of evidence of a Black Bear, especially at The Sea Ranch. Joe Dobrenski's camera caught the big bear. Here are two stills from the video that Joe's son provided.

And here is one of the videos.

 

Amy Ruegg came across Black Bear scat the same week of Joe's sighting. It's studded with huckleberries.

And several weeks ago Amy came across this snag where a Black Bear was digging for insects, possibly termites.

Yep, Black Bears are year round residents of the Mendonoma Coast! Thanks to Joe and Amy for allowing me to share their photos and the video here with you.

It's a magnificent day here today - sunny, warm with little or no breeze.

 

 

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Paul Brewer always takes his camera with him when he travels coastal roads, thank goodness. This day he headed north and found a Red-shouldered Hawk on Lighthouse Road, north of Point Arena. The meadows there attract hunting hawks.

Paul pointed out the hawk has a band on its right leg. Wish we could see numbers but no such luck.

I love the call of these forest hawks. You can hear it at this link to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red-shouldered_Hawk/sounds

Thanks to Paul for allowing me to share his photos with you here. To see much more of Paul's nature photography, here is the link to his website: https://paulbrewer.smugmug.com/

It started off cool and sunny but some clouds began streaming in this afternoon. That makes for a beautiful sky!

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I'll let Mark tell the story. He wrote, "Hi, Jeanne!  On my way back to the Lighthouse from S&B Market the other day my eye was caught by an explosion of pink in the Evergreen Cemetery off of Mountain View Road.  I pulled into the cemetery and there were Naked Ladies everywhere!  I walked around the grounds taking pictures and looking at some of the headstones from the 1800s, and at the far end of the cemetery a fox decided to join me on my walk.  It stopped by one of the headstones and looked at me as if to say, aren't these flowers amazing?

Amazing, indeed and it's fun to see the Gray Fox! Naked ladies are non-native bulbs. By the time the flower stalk comes up, the leaves are gone - hence the naked  lady. They aren't invasive so we are free to love them.

Thanks to Mark for allowing me to share his photos with you here.

After yesterday's downpour, we had a sunny, cool day today. The horizon looks clear so perhaps there will be a green flash tonight at sunset. Hope so!