The weekend walk report: Loosey Goosey

 Not much to say, here are some pictures from the weekend, Saturday, April 15th and Sunday April 16th.

It was odd seeing this Canada goose up on top of one of the classroom buildings. I watched it for quite awhile, it never took a step, it only moved its head from side to side.

Then there was this male mallard duck wandering around all over the garden.

Not much else going on, hummingbirds were once again very elusive, so I decided to get some walking in and went round the lower north west end of the campus for my 1/2 mile "loop."

This pair of red-tailed hawks should be familar to anyone who has frequented this blog. The female is the one missing a feather or two on her left wing.

 In one of the campus newspaper bins. This was a flashback for me in a way. My freshman year in college, I took a class in the history of religion. Among a bunch of other stuff, I read the Bhagavad Gita. It was one of the best classes I've ever taken. It solidified my rejection of the belief that any deities exist. I think it may have been the most reading I ever had undertaken for any single class throughout my four years as an undergrad. I tried to embrace the good I found.

Where's the fire? The Los Angeles County Fire Department, a rough and honorable gig.

I scouted around quite a bit and for the most part things were very quiet. I ventured to the top of the hill and the valley skies were hazy and tinted brown. Who is making those new brown clouds? Who is making those clouds these days? I decided to call it quits.

Today, Sunday, April 16.

I didn't even realize until I got home just how lackluster the photo experience was. I saw the male Calypte anna hummingbird affectionately known as Dusty but he was way up in a Caesalpinia cacalaco tree and I found my photos unusable. However... I finally learned today that tree is a Caesalpinia cacalaco. I've been trying to figure that one out for some time. There were several other pictures I rejected from the antique car worshipers to some in flight images of a battle-scarred crow.

This is all I've got. 

Tagetes lemmonii

For a third time now... Western bluebird (Sialia mexicana). According to the Encyclopedia of Life... Conservation status: Least Concern (Population increasing). So there you go.

This common raven didn't want to have anything to do with my presence. I followed it twice and then left it alone.

Thanks again to Docken for joining on the walks. Thanks too to you for joining the walks in this blog, whoever you may be.

The music post is the full album. I have it starting at, Loosey Goosey.