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Added more photos, including close ups of leaves. Seems more QDG than lobata.

This little Bushtit spent her morning tapping at my window! Would tap the glass a few times, fly off to a nearby tree, and return. Kept it up for quite awhile.

The mountain lion was running up the hill on the street, I approached slowly to take a picture. When I was 100 ft away it ran up the hill.

Updated with even more photos, including trichomes.

Adult sitting on nest with one chick and one egg. Adult was flushed by accident and we left the scene asap when we saw that she had a nest.

Many plants in a sunny patch in Topanga State Park

A true blue Engelmann Oak in the San Rafaels. :)) Probably some hybridization with QDG but to a much much lower degree than you tend to see out here.

Hill-topping

With a rabbit it killed

Roughly 25’ tall

Blue Elder seems to be growing on this tree. Not sure if this is all Blue Elder or two different species.

widely spaced flowers, flat head 7-8”wide: very sparse looking!

Craigs Creek Road, VA

This turkey chased my dog. Tucker, my dog, does not like turkeys.

Found at 8900ft growing in decomposed granite in a meadow.

Got to watch it hunt for 20 minutes

On wood chips, white rhizomorphs, blue staining, dark purple brown spores, web like partial veil on young specimen, bowling pin shaped cheilocystidia