Song sparrow, Melospiza melodia, on a gray morning at Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve

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So happy to see the Draba every spring. They were one of the first “micro” plants I noticed six years ago in my naturalist infancy, an early reward for looking closer

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"Ecological fitting" in an image: a domestic honeybee, Apis mellifera, on flowers of a western Joshua tree, Yucca brevifolia, at Quartz Hill, California back in January

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I wanna make candied flowers this year!!! No eggs and trying to get a close to the versions that would have been accessible to indigenous tribes before colonization. I'd like to learn this before I teach the youngs about edible flowers again this spring... Any recipes or tips? How did one candy before easy access to sugar? I need to know this!
Please help.

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Allen's hummingbird, Selasporus sasin, standing watch at Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve

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Here's some green (and red and brown) for St. Patrick's Day! A photo of mine of Mountain Cranberry, Crowberry, Alpine Bearberry, & Spruce Cone, Whitefish Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada. ©Carl R. Englander

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New addition to my collection. 🧡

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