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introduced to HG, now everywhere

not sure on exact location, was likely on south facing cliffs above lake

Leucistic bird that appeared to have no black feathers at all.

Melanistic?!?!? So cool! Guess this is only seen in the Tetons. On the Cascade Canyon Trail.

I've never seen or heard of a nearly all black kingfisher. Is it juvenile? A known variant? A different species?

Scinque à bandes de peter

I'm not sure about the species. We were calling it E. albofaciolatus. We pulled it out of a big pile of coconut husks. Apologies for the terrible photos.

Raya

foreground, with Petasites sagittatus; M.J. Oldham collection # 42470; replicates to TRT, mjo, MT; saline pond edges

American Mink with a freshly caught Round Goby

Photo taken by @dkuluguktuk Daniel Kuluguktuk at Cumberland Sound near Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Canada

The location is a micro climate and I believe this is the most northern habitat for cactus.

Taken with a Browning trail camera.

Crows alerted me to its presence, so I was ready with my camera. Duck for breakfast.

I felt its presence before I saw it.

Grizzly Bear has been feeding on these sedges.

Very abundant in soft muddy estuarine marsh; photos after dusk

Lower on the mudflat where I typically saw this species on the small peninsula.

Located on the edge of where the sedges were growing which was meeting the area that was flooded just a few weeks ago that has turned into mud.

Strangely glabrous or almost, inflorescences and involucres.

I have no clue what this is

Three specimens collected by C. & D. Copley of the Royal BC Museum July 28th 2018.
Above photo ID'd in museum collection by L. Avis & confirmed by Lars Crabo, Dave Holden & Greg Pohl.

Melica?

Edited: Fleabane (Erigeron acris ssp kamtschaticus). I initially suggested possible Bitter Fleabane (Erigeron acris), pink, Chilkoot Trail National Historic Site, BC, July 12/19

An endemic psyllid found only on Cryptocarya oahuensis, which has only one wild tree left.

Two thalli on fallen spruce branch

edge of seasonal clay pan; very rare species; habitat inundated in winter; visited by bees