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I will give ridewithgps a plug here - I tend to get lost on a good day. I love the spoken voice cues. There are all sorts of apps - Strava, Komoot, ridewithgps, etc. Komoot has the added feature of being able to set your depart time, and see the wind/temperature on a sliding scale as the day progresses.
Thanks for the great report - I felt i was riding with you!
I think, but am not sure that these are changed periodically. I've seen some new designs that weren't here last year. Maybe. Perhaps my memory is bad . . . but, that's what I think.
2 years agoIt took lots of looking at photos of both the downy and others. The allaboutbirds site's similar species really helps, and using those names to google search images pretty much confirmed it for me. The one that was most similar was the hairy woodpecker...
2 years agoThanks Scott! I couldn't miss with this one, just had to hustle outside to catch it at just the right time.
2 years agoInteresting that it's part of the asparagus family. When we've been in Texas, we've seen agave/century plants that were actually in bloom. Thanks!
2 years agoAhhh - ok. I don't have a good book showing flowering shrubs for this area.
2 years agoThanks Bill!
2 years agoThanks for confirming that. Sometimes pictures in a book don't always fit what you're seeing. And this bird was moving quite quickly through the trees.
2 years agoCorrect! It is Agave, but it is done flowering. note the withering reddish leaves that gave it their all. When they are getting ready to flower, they shoot up a stalk that looks like giant asparagus (same family, actually).
https://www.alamy.com/looking-up-at-the-top-of-a-tall-flower-stalk-of-the-agave-plant-also-known-as-the-century-plant-sprouting-buds-image243635728.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agave_americana
Brittlebush
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encelia_farinosa
I believe you are correct.
2 years agoLooks like you are correct.
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Downy_Woodpecker/id
Wow. Great photo!
2 years agoFungi are so variable... Sometimes almost impossible to definitively identify without genetic testing. That said, It might be that this one is gasteroid agaricus. The wiki convoluted account of its (current) name is rather long, but serves to reinforce my confused , tentative perspective.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaricus_deserticola
I see it--the saguaro's arm is wrapped around your waist. Don's head is unusually tall though. And his eyeballs are popping out of his tall head all over the place.
2 years ago