Welcoming wildlife
Wanting this bobcat to have a good life in our yards that border nearby preserves is why I rooted for AB-1322 via emails to elected officials. Predators like bobcats, mountain lions, coyotes and raptors are skilled hunters that too often fall victim to rodenticides that travel up the food chain.
This bobcat captured a midnight snack.
Rufous/Allen’s hummingbird (Selasphorus sp.) working one of the Dudleya pulverulenta I planted on the slope a few years ago
Anna's hummingbird (Calypte anna) with Dudleya pulverulenta
Callianda x Sierra Starr® is a robust hybrid between Calliandra eriophylla (pink fairy duster) and Calliandra californica (Baja fairy duster) that keeps the hummingbirds very busy.
Great Basin western fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis longipes) on the house
Very adorable and tiny Baja California tree frogs (Pseudacris hypochondriaca) often find cover in our potted plants from Andy’s Bromeliads, in this case a Hohenbergia.
A southern pacific rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus helleri) was eyeing me from beneath a chaparral mallow (Malacothamnus fasciculatus) I planted on the slope. Our yard and the preserve is clearly a great place for neighbors’ dogs to be permitted to run and dig off-leash.
greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus)
chaparral yucca (Yucca whipplei) seed pods with full Moon