Apr 24, 2017
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Cobbles.
My neighborhood park in Tempe features an artificial 13-acre lake (5 ha), stocked by the Arizona Department of Game and Fish. It is a popular spot among anglers with few fishing opportunities in this parched desert environment. It is also popular with migrating waterfowl. The lake bottom is built of gravel and large cobbles to provide cover for fish. Around the lake’s perimeter some of these small boulders rise just below the surface, and give the birds a place to stand and stretch. The constant burnishing of hundreds of webbed feet scours away the biofilms and filamentous algae that cover the stones. The action produces one of those wonderful abstractions that I love to discover in nature - an effect that is simultaneously regular and patternless and not quite random.
anyone who lives near kiwanis park we should meet up and catch pokemon
i work nights so i just chill all day some days after ~4pm so hmu if u wanna hang out and catch bulbasaurs (i saw one there on my list i know theres more!!!)
Those feet!
American coot (Fulica americana) at Kiwanis Park, Tempe, Arizona.
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Pond slider (Trachemys scripta), at Kiwanis Park, Tempe, Arizona.
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Sliders are not Arizona natives, but they have taken advantage of the extensive network of irrigation canals to establish populations here, and are now common in much of the state.
Duck Atlas: Lesser scaup (Aythya affinis ♂).
At Kiwanis Park in Tempe, Arizona.
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Duck Atlas: American wigeon (Anas americana).
At Kiwanis Park in Tempe, Arizona.
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Great-tailed grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus ♂), at Kiwanis Park, Tempe, Arizona.
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The male grackles in my neighborhood are beginning to display their flamboyant mating plumage, and to behave in attention-getting ways. Love’s season comes early in the desert.