June 6, 2024
After a recent welcome inch of rain, the moss was quite happy. Also possibly a sedum or two...
June 11
I'm
not sure what you'd call this--a sun dog appears mostly white and to
either side of the sun. The sun in this case was farther to the
right... It could be a rainbow fragment, but it's happening
higher than most rainbows...
Geum Triflorum--lots of nicknames like prairie smoke. Nondescript flowers and wild haired seeds...
Cordilleran/Pacific
Slope flycatcher. These are hard to identify, and even their
calls are similar. LBJ--Little Brown Jobber.
June 21, 2024
It
was a lovely first day of summer, high near 80, so we went to Farragut
for an evening walk. No mosquitoes, only encountered one person
on the lakeside trail, and there were these beautiful yellow irises
blooming
I had seen something about them being an invasive so I looked them up on Wikipedia.
They were a good match for Iris pseudacorus, which is native to
Eurasia, but not N. America. It listed states with outbreaks of
them, and Idaho wasn't on the list...
June 29
Spotted towhees are common, but seldom perch for long in a good place to photograph
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