#midpics

[mid-nighttiger]

total eclipse of the sun

[Image ID: Composite of 7 images of the sun in various stages of a total eclipse, arranged from left to right. The first image shows the uneclipsed sun. The next four show the sun's face being increasingly blocked by the moon, until there is only a barest sliver left. The sixth image shows the sun totally eclipsed, allowing the corona to be visible. Two solar prominences are also visible as small red protrusions from the sun's surface. The final image is of the "diamond ring" at the end of totality. /End ID]

[mid-nighttiger]

[Image ID: Set of 17 pictures. The first is the coast at low tide, exposing flat sands covered with algae which would usually be underwater and tidepools. The next 15 are various kelps, algaes, and aquatic creatures, some of which are ID'd below. The last is the ocean at sunset, with the sky along the horizon turning a dark orange. /End ID]

a day at the tidepools #2, -0.246 m

last two rows, left to right: juvenile opaleye, brown pelican, juvenile sculpin (likely woolly), black turnstone, spotted sandpiper, whimbrel eating striped shore crab. sorry folks i can't ID algas

[mid-nighttiger]

[Image ID: Two pictures of a flat meadow of short dried grass, with low mountains in the distance. In the first, it is sunset. Low hazy clouds glow a soft pink beyond the tops of the mountains. In the second, it is sunrise. A faint lavender gradient is visible in the clear blue sky. /End ID]

sunset / sunrise

[mid-nighttiger]

[Image ID: Three pictures of bufflehead ducks swimming in a pond. The first is a male, the second is a female looking very round from the front, and the third is the same female now from the side, lifting her right leg partially out of the water. /End ID]

i love buffleheads, they look so soft and floaty and holdable, and the males have just the slightest touch of iridescence

[mid-nighttiger]

American Falls - Niagara Falls

[Image ID: Picture of a large, wide waterfall crashing over rocks, sending up large clouds of mist. A rainbow is visible across the front of the falls in the mist. /End ID]

[mid-nighttiger]

summertime snack

[Image ID: Picture of a juvenile California ground squirrel in a field of daisies. It is clutching two daisies in its front paws and eating them. End ID]

[mid-nighttiger]

[Image ID: Set of 18 pictures. The first is the ocean by the edge of a rocky shore, with many fluffy clouds in the blue sky. The next 16 are various aquatic creatures, the IDs of which are listed below. The last is the ocean and tidepools at sunset, which is turning the sky pale orange and yellow. /End ID]

a day at the tidepools, -0.012 m

top to bottom, left to right: juvenile shrimp and hermit crabs (likely red-banded transparent and blueband, respectively), woolly sculpin, snowy egret, spotted sandpiper, western gull, gooseneck barnacles and California mussels, striped shore crab, California spiny chiton, sandcastle worm, juvenile zebra perch, owl limpet with acorn and volcano barnacles, fish (possibly topsmelt silverside), juvenile garibaldi, juvenile opaleye, black sea hare, California moray eel

[mid-nighttiger]

[Image ID: Picture of a small brown mouse clinging to a plant leaf /End ID]

>visit the zoo >spend over an hour studying the wild mice that have snuck into the aviary instead >nailed it