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Tag 726 / green 26
Little Stinker
https://www.ventanaws.org/condor726.html

Trapdoor lid, with moss on topside.

Sign: Tracks

Beautiful tracks. Quiz: what foot?

odd looking mourning dove tracks, almost looks like robin with the outer toes "peeling off" to the outside

I was measuring the metatarsal pad width at just about 50 mm, possibly male? Last photo shows cougar, coyote, and bobcat tracks all in the same photo.

Bobcat tracks. Bounded over creek, slipped.

Sign: Tracks

Fur on a utility pole rub.

Mother and kittens. Big Morongo Canyon Preserve.

Broken down manzanita berry seed scat placed on top of cow pie.

Coyote tracks, scat, urine, and fur caught on a fence the individual crawled under.

About 7 cm

This is #534, a 9-year-old female from the Pinnacles flock.

Newly-fledged 1027 and her mother, 236,

Growing near Lower Sespe Creek near Devil’s Gate.

I saw these two condors mating. Looking up their wing tags, they're Beak Boy and Solo, a mated pair:

https://www.ventanaws.org/condor168.html

https://www.ventanaws.org/condor208.html

Ventura County Tracking Eval

This juvenile long-tailed weasel was in long grass that I was cutting with a scythe. It was cornered by the dog, captured, and released uninjured.

Not sure what is going on but this is the fourth birder that I know of who has had a phoebe perch on their binoculars or on their person at Commons Ford.

rooivlerkspreeu/red-winged starling/onychognathus morio on Klipspringer [Oreotragus oreotragus]

Brown anole who fell in love with a fairy!

You can't see it in the picture but he has a black tip on his tail.

Cardinal getting territorial with itself in this mirror. It was doing the same thing last week too. It spends a not-insignificant amount of time battling itself.

This lone condor sat beside the trail for a while, watching numerous hikers pass below it.

Wild tagged condor perching on sign by the side of the paved road.

i saw a group of 32 condors on my way home today. some were in the air but most were on the ground.

A condor being harrassed by a red tail. Good size comparison shots.

Is this an albino Raccoon?

Custom trail camera
(Canon 70D, trailmaster, 2 nikon sb28s but one out of battery, metal housing)

With prey

Arroyo toad tadpole shot on a survey for the San Dieguito River Conservancy.

A great looking bobcat, probably a young male, who went walking down the hill behind our house about 5 this evening.

Fotos de macho y hembra.

Observed single muskrat foraging within Conejo Creek.

On October 16, 2013 XplorMor was hiking the southern and western portion of Lake Casitas Recreational Area and Park when we saw a beautiful Barn Owl fly by.

Observed by Derek Poultney and Dashiell Dunkell in the AM.

Photo from an old trail cam that used film.

Funny capture of bobcat eating a deer.
Custom trail cam
(Canon 70d, trailmaster, 2 nikon SB28s, metal housing)

This fella was tree'd by a pack of coyotes.....not me

Observation and photo by Robert Martinez, sent to nature@nhm.org

Young female mountain lion walking past the Trippet Ranch visitor center on Sunday morning.

Collared/tagged, left eye appears injured. Was walking up the road when we both ran into each other, bear panicked and ran up near by oak tree- took off up hill shortly after.