This is Simon, he’s part of a rescued litter from a feral colony up in Port Hardy that the BC SPCA has in their care. They confirmed by respiratory test that Simon has calicivirus, a lifelong condition in cats that causes coughing and watery eyes when they get stressed. We are fostering Simon and plan to adopt him, so wanted to just iNat his cold, welcome him to the family, and remind everyone reading to keep your cats indoors
Pidén robándose un hueso que estaba en una fogata abandonada, ribera río Picoiquén en zona de uso público.
Needless to say, this broad-winged hawk and I were both unhappy to find it stuck in my chicken pen. Soon after this he figured out the trick of letting go hold of the fence and flew off.
Florida Bluet riding a sandwich through the inky void. This is not an altered photo, nor was this my sandwich.
Spider came to piece of lobster mushroom that was broken off on the ground. The spider looked like it was sucking up the mushroom for about 5 mins then walked away. An ID on the spider would be great as I am not familiar with them
Moved a bit fast for my camera setting
Pool rescue
Accidentally caught in a live trap set for rats; released unharmed. Photo by C. Ashurst
Nudibranch Orienthella trilineata (northern form, about 10mm long) & look-alike amphipod Podocerus cristatus. Scanned from a 35 mm slide I took in the lab in 1984. I had found the specimens in close proximity to each other a few days earlier in the low intertidal at Middle Cove, Cape Arago, Oregon. The amphipod (and her recently hatched juveniles, visible at lower right when viewed large) are on a piece of the outer tube of the polychaete Pista elongata; the slug is on a piece of the hydroid Abietinaria.
Notice the white head tentacles of the slug and the white antennae on the amphipod. Here's what one form of the amphipod looks like in central California, where the southern form of O. trilineata ( with chromium orange on their rhinophores and cephalic tentacles) is prevalent: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1103734
Farther south, near Puerto Vallarta, the amphipod lacks white lines, just like the abundant local aeolids!:https://www.flickr.com/photos/8723238@N07/2686177157