I stumbled upon this little Frog while on a hike in Oroville, CA. There are some beautiful waterfalls and lush lands that are fertile for a lot of creatures, like this Amphibian. This is the first Amphibian I’ve posted to Field Notes for those keeping track.

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This is another shot from our Elkhorn Slough tour near Monterey Bay, CA. Yes, this was taken from a little boat. I should have asked our guide or captain what the piece of metal the Brown Pelican is sitting on was, as it was sticking out of the water about six feet. The portion in the photograph looks like an anchor, but it was much too long to be one. There wasn’t anything else around it. Just this one giant piece of metal that the Pelican claimed. Well, by the looks of it, many Pelicans probably perch there.

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Woodstar Hummingbirds are some of my favorite. I didn’t experience them until I went to Ecuador which is home to a few different species. Woodstars are very small and they float around like Bumblebees, rather than how you normally see Hummingbirds move about. Watching them float from flower to flower is very mesmerizing.

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On a walk through the forest on my way to a waterfall one morning I found this tiny little Mushroom growing out of a hole in this log that was on the ground. It wasn’t tall enough to stick out the top of the hole but I hope that it made it. The hole was probably created by an Acorn Woodpecker.

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The third and final photograph from the foggy Montague Mule Deer series.

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I will be sporadically posting more photographs from Ecuador. I don’t want to say that they are from Ecuador within each post as that might get repetitive. Instead, you can check the tags associated with each post if you’d like to find out where the shot was taken.

In case you don’t know how blogs work, all posts have assigned “tags” and “categories”. Only the category shows up on the main Field Notes feed. Tags can be found by clicking a specific post and scrolling down past the free wallpaper downloads. Categories are very general like Birds, Mammals, Insects, Fungi, Landscapes, etc. Tags are a little more refined, like Sword Billed Hummingbird, Hummingbirds, Ecuador, etc. You can click on a category or tag to see more photos within that category or tag. So if you click on the bird category, you will see all of my bird posts. If you click on the Hummingbird tag then you will see all posts tagged with Hummingbird. I hope this is helpful along with the search function where you can search any of those terms.

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I wonder what this Douglas’ Squirrel was eating. What do you think?

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Another photograph of a Ruby Crowned Kinglet that I shot right before it flew off.

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On a hike I stumbled upon a fallen tree with some Turkey Tail thriving on one of the broken ends.

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