nature sightings

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMg802MW8AEadnd?format=jpg&name=large

because I have a big tree in my garden every summer I get a lot of bees, particularly these ones (chocolate mining bees- pleasing taxonomy, but these fuckers have stung my feet many times). This year I have a nest of them somewhere deep under my garden and they are in big numbers at the side of my house every evening. The garden is raised up 9 ft with a brick wall at the side and they are coming and going in between their nest and my world through gaps in the concrete render and drainage holes in the brick wall.

gamera say hi to me

https://i.imgur.com/mSfIWjN.jpeg

I saw two porpoises in san francisco bay yesterday, right by Pier 30/32... there must be a herring run or something to draw them that far in