Patrick

@watchinthesky.bsky.social

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All about Nature - especially birds and reptiles, those will be most of the posts - with some travel and plant photos tossed in! Photos by me unless reposted or attributed Maybe some sky pics cuz watchinthesky 😉 Living in San Diego north county - Ca

A bright partial moon is seen in a black sky.
Two crows are checking out which seeds are on a platform feeder. They are very shiny in the sun.
Visiting roadrunner comes up onto the backyard patio and jumps up on a small table to get some large mealworms.
A roadrunner up on a small table about to get some large mealworms. A sunny concrete patio is seen behind.
A black and brown tortie cat is curled up on a carpeted cat stand next to a patio door. The cat has a paw covering her eyes from the bright outdoors while she sleeps.
A visiting roadrunner is up on a small patio table getting large mealworms from a white ceramic bowl on a sunny warm morning.
A family parrot perched on a stand near a patio door.
A view of our moon half illuminated in a black sky.
Two birds are seen, one is clear standing on a fence. One is a little blurry standing in a seed bowl.
More than half of the moon’s surface facing us can be seen this early evening in a blue sky.
A view of the back of a roadrunner, there is green shimmer from some back feathers. The bird stands on small gravel with its head feathers standing up and its long tail feathers parallel to the ground.
A visiting roadrunner is showing its left side to the camera as it stands next to a white ceramic bowl containing large mealworms.
A roadrunner standing on a concrete patio with its wings held out a bit from its sides. The feathers on the bird’s head are standing tall.
A roadrunner leans over a large clay saucer filled with water to get a cool drink on a very warm day.
A right side view of a roadrunner standing tall on a backyard patio.
A wild cottontail rabbit is stretched out in the shade of tall native grass this morning.
A small plant produced two blooms that have five wide flat petals and a tiny yellow center.
A pale yellow bird leans to the left to look around the feeder it is perched on.
A blue and gray bird stands tall at the top of a tree with short blade like leaves. A light blue sky is visible behind.
A third of the moon’s surface facing Earth is lit by the sun. The right edge is visible.
A young male oriole is perched on a sugar water feeder in a backyard. Blurry shrubs are beyond.
A young cottontail rabbit is eating bunny food from a bowl in a backyard
A right side view of a young roadrunner standing on a concrete patio.
Two young roadrunners have run up on a backyard patio. One bird is in shade, one is in bright sunlight.
Two dark gray lizards are crawling out from behind a pottery sun yard ornament hanging on the side of house. The stucco wall is light gray, the pottery sun is light brown with darker brown.
The crescent moon seen tonight, the right edge is lit up.
A small black wasp is seen on a person’s hand.
A dark brown finch like bird is dark brown on top and has a black and white checkered chest and belly.
A large black wasp has orange wings and antennae. It is trying to get sugar water from an oriole feeder.
A young roadrunner standing on a short table is looking at the camera. The background is in bright sunlight and overexposed, it looks mostly washed out.
A black and red beetle is checking out a bloom on a milkweed plant.
A large black wasp is getting nectar from a blooming milkweed plant at a local park. The wasp has orange wings and long orange antennae.
Two young roadrunners are about three feet apart with their backs exposed to the warm sun in a backyard. A big green water jug is near.
A thin sliver moon is see between high scattered clouds. A dark palm frond is in the foreground backlit by the moon.
A young roadrunner stands tall on the edge of a clay seed bowl at the back edge of a backyard. Its beak is open as it pants in the heat.
A roadrunner kicks up a small cloud of seeds from a clay seed bowl as it rapidly scrapes its beak I. The bowl to remove food debris.
A colorful black, red, and gray woodpecker is perched on a gnarled dead tree trunk that has green moss clumps growing on it. A blue sky is beyond.
A visiting roadrunner stands near a bowl with mealworms.
A large lizard is circling on a patio near some human toes on a warm day.
A light brown lizard with dark brown spots aligned almost in stripes is resting on a concrete patio with its long tail curled in front of it.
A better view of a large clay sun yard ornament.
A small periwinkle plant has a small white bloom that looks like a boat propeller.
A gray and brown lizard pokes out from behind a clay molded sun yard ornament hanging on a stucco wall.
A hawk is flying off a backyard fence after failing to catch a meal.
A view of the thin sliver moon last night in a black sky.
Two crows on a backyard fence have their beaks open in the hot sun.
A Canada jay is flying up to an open hand holding a peanut. Trees are behind.
A photo of two roadrunners at the edge of a yard. One is on a fence, one is on the top of a red pergola next to the fence. Palm fronds are seen behind.
A roadrunner is scraping its beak on the edge of a big seed platform after shooing off a crow from there.
Two roadrunners visit our backyard today. They are on the concrete patio.
A visiting roadrunner is standing in a clay bowl on a post after have some mealworms. The bird is in bright very warm sunlight.
A small cup shaped bloom is bright orange. The plant has light green fuzzy leaves.
A hummingbird is getting nectar from one of many hot pink blooms on a flower stalk.
Photo of a personal weather station showing that it is 100 degrees outside.
A midafternoon photo of a visiting roadrunner about to get large mealworms from a bowl
A list of 10 birds that Merlin says were singing in our backyard last Saturday.
Two roadrunners visit a backyard patio on the very warm day. One is in the sunlight while the other is cooler in the shade.