Notices by RealGravitas -Citizen Saboteur (cwilbur@sfba.social)

I headed back to Penasquitos Preserve to check on the #butterflies. It only got up to 68 degrees, but it was sunny and there were some flyers. Mostly small and drab - tho I did see a Tiger Swallowtail (hint; not small or drab). The day belonged to the Ringlets. There were dozens if not hundreds in view today.

It’s hard not to notice that these all show #butterflies on the ground. It IS winter, and they like the warmth and moisture on the ground. There were some flying around though, and landing higher up. Like this guy, sharing a sunflower blossom with some ladybug-ish beetle.

Calavera Preserve really performed today as a December #butterfly locality. My creekside/chaparral time was a no-hitter, but the “volcano” hilltoppers were there in numbers. All four Vanessa (ladies) species were present.

@bmacDonald94 Just “Alligator” will do fine. I’m torn between that and tattooing that to their forehead. Maybe both.

Don't buy anything on Black Friday or any of those online sales days. (As if we could afford anything anyway.) It'll make a point and you know the stuff will still be on sale afterwards if no one buys anything. #boycott #BoycottUSA #protest

@skinnylatte My cousin when he was oh maybe 12, slipped on one of those very rocks the same day we arrived in Pacific Grove for summer break, and broke his kneecap. Spent the rest of the summer in a full leg cast

@hellomiakoda Now you understand how deeply tragic it is to have a caffeine allergy.

@catsalad Liberace demonstrates the conventional 2-cycle engine. #CatsOfMastodon #caturday

Things were popping a little bit today at Daley Ranch. The #butterflies were out. Mostly moving too fast for good portraiture but I did my best.
- Lorquin’s’
- Monarchs
- Cabbage Whites
- Buckeyes
- Duskywings
- Mourning Cloaks
- Marine Blues
- Acmon Blues
- Euphilotes (Bernardino, Enoptes, or …?)
- Gray Hairstreak
No sign of Coppers or Crescents, and I did look!
This picture fell out of the day’s work. My fave.

A couplof other nice shots from today. #butterflies.

After a rather fruitless search for some sunny location in the Oakland Hills this morning, (there weren’t any), I ended up driving partway up Mt Diablo and had much better luck with the #butterflies. Not super happy with the picture quality, but I bagged a Copper and that’s huge.

More pictures of the Mt Diablo Gorgon Copper, as I attempt to extract the best frames from the video. #butterflies

I didn’t see anything new today in #butterfly world here in Oakland, but I did see some nice stuff. Kind of a miracle actually, since the temps barely made it to 60 at the end of my sojourn. And the fog and wind were very persistent. Here’s a sampling of today’s observations.

@kaia Labels don’t help, so no. It depends on your goals obviously, but it’s better I think to describe a behavior rather than naming it.

For instance, “You seem to like things to be organized” rather than “You’re OCD”

@hellomiakoda Maybe 😸
During the pandemic I watched my daughter play animal crossing for hours. Very peaceful.

@skinnylatte Yeah, your post referenced spicy and I thought 'I wonder what peppers you like best.'

You'll probably say 'all of them' haha

@skinnylatte So what is your favorite pepper? You must have tried a lot of different kinds by now.

Want to hear something funny? Our dem club purchased about 100 copies of "On Tyranny" so that all the members could get a bit of an understanding about what we are facing now. On Saturday, I'm supposed to do a review of the book at our next meeting, and we advertised the meeting on our website. Well, we're having the meeting at our congressman's campaign office and the last half hour of the meeting he's supposed to show up and give us a summary of what's happening in DC. So all the local clubs and orgs got wind of that and now we have hundreds of people clammering to come to the meeting. I may have a MASSIVE audience for my book report,. #democrats #punch_a_nazi #OnTyranny

@georgetakei I only see one ‘nasty’ in this equation, and it ain’t her. #TrumpCorruption

@cstross What IS a titkok and why don't I have one? 🤭