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SteveT

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On our walk this AM we went to San Leandro trail in Montecito.
Lots of re-built mega mansions almost finished.
This area was ground zero for the tragic 2018 mud slides.
This gate house is still in re-build mode.
To give you an idea how much mud and debris covered this entire area, the mud line just below the window is 15 feet o_O
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keenfish

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Hump said:
Couple of small bird pics.

Wilson's Warbler.
Photo by Al Bright.
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Pacific Slope Flycatcher
Photo by Karen Wasilenchuk

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Take care.
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Fun fact: they recently changed the name Pacific Slope Flycatcher back to Western Flycatcher in 2023.

www.allaboutbirds.org

Western Flycatcher Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

An attractive small flycatcher that looks like several other attractive small flycatchers in the genus Empidonax, the Western Flycatcher breeds in shaded forests of the Rocky Mountains and Pacific Coast mountain ranges. This petite olive-and-yellow species often inhabits canyons or ravines with...
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"In 2023, ornithologists lumped Pacific-slope and Cordilleran Flycatchers together as Western Flycatcher after treating them as separate species since 1989."

 
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taken at a drill site we were prepping in the same underwater canyon (Mississippi Canyon, GOM) five years after the Deepwater Horizon blew up in 2010. you can see depth & heading upper right and long/lat upper left of the ROV, got some really good photos of weird blind sharks as well. i think this was the project when the Sea Shepard suboids showed up harrassing us until i told them we were doing environmental compliance for BSEE....
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Hump

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Jan 10, 2002
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There has been a lot of Orca activities around Vancouver Island this year and down around Sooke in particular.

Here's a nice juicy seal sitting in very shallow water in what is called Sooke Basin..
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And here is one of the main reasons why it's sitting so shallow.
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He was with a couple of females, and they are all transients who like to eat seals and sea-lions and such.
And here they are.
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Photos by Lee-Ann Ruttan of Sooke, BC




Take care.
 
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