Ferruginous Hawk at Carrizo Plain Mational Monument #photography #birding #raptors #ferruginousHawk #CarrizoPlain

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#CarrizoPlain
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Carrizo Plain in purple and yellow, via Sentinel-2 #satellite #CarrizoPlain #flowers #superbloom #desert

Spring Fiddleneck Flowers. © Copyright 2023 G Dan Mitchell.

Spring fiddleneck flowers, California grasslands.

The photograph comes from Carrizo Plain National Monument, but it could be anywhere across a wide range of California locations this time of year. Beginning in late winter and extending into early spring, California enters what I call the “impossibly green season.” While much of the state can be brown and dry most of the year, colors near the ned of the wet season are amazing — in the best years and in the right places the wildflower displays are astonishing. Continues: https://gdanmitchell.com/2023/04/18/spring-fiddleneck-flowers

#flowers #wildflowers #nature #spring #flora #carrizoplain #photography

Spring Cloudburst. © Copyright 2023 G Dan Mitchell.

A spring cloudburst moves across a Southern California grassland landscape.

At the end of March we detoured though mountains west of the San Joaquin Valley on our way home from Death Valley, looking for grasslands where the spring wildflower bloom was starting. After a few false starts — two dead-ends that forced us to turn around and try different routes — we finally made it to this big valley where wet years produce an immense carpet of wildflowers. continues: https://gdanmitchell.com/2023/04/15/spring-cloudburst

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Shadows on the Plain. © Copyright 2023 G Dan Mitchell.

Cloud shadows move across Carrizo Plain and the hills of the Temblor Range.

This year we only had a few hours to visit the Carrizo Plain, where wildflowers emerge for a few weeks in astonishing abundance during wet springs. We extended our Death Valley trip by a day so that we could loop though the National Monument on the way home. Road conditions delayed our arrival a bit, and rain showers were passing through when we got there, but as it cleared we could see extensive fields of flowers extending across the valley and rising into the hills. ...continues: https://gdanmitchell.com/2023/04/09/shadows-on-the-plain

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Twas cold and wet on my #SOTA activation of Mt. 4175 aka W6/SC-394 above the #CarrizoPlain NM. First time being activated. Beautiful sights and 15 QSOs ftw. #HamRadio #AmateurRadio #MorseCode #Morse #hiking

Twas cold and wet on my #SOTA activation of Mt. 4175 aka W6/SC-394 above the #CarrizoPlain NM. First time being activated. Beautiful sights and 15 QSOs ftw.

#ThrowbackThurday to March, 2017, at #CarrizoPlain, #California. The valleys and hills of this #NationalMonument were covered in #flowers after an exceptionally rainy winter.

Also in this area: San Andreas Fault features, #pictographs, #pronghorn antelope, San Joaquin kit fox, and a huge #solar farm.

#geography #NaturalHistory #Botany #history