At least that’s the way it seems to visitors at Strybing Arboretum, aka San Francisco Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park. Something is always blooming in there, throughout the year.
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From Chile, with love
A male Allen’s Hummingbird uses sunlight to show off his iridescent orange-red mantle at the Strybing Arboretum / San Francisco Botanical Garden .
It’s his way of saying “we bad” to other Allen’s Hummingbirds.
You know what looks yummy? Huge banana Passionfruit hanging around at the Strybing Arboretum at the San Francisco Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park. Feel free to look, but not touch, as SFBG is a kind of worldwide storage vault of these kinds of plants.
Mmmm…, passionfruit.
Back in the day, a few years ago, you could see Red Foxes in Golden Gate Park. No longer.
A vixen and her pup in Strybing Arboretum from several years ago:
Some got run over by cars and others might have been poisoned. Seems like they’re no longer around.
The San Francisco Bay Guardian’s question from last year: “Where are all the chicks?” The writer was referring to California Quail in the Presidio of San Francisco. As of 2006, there were female quail there but things took a turn for the worse last year.
Quail sometimes travel between the Presidio and Golden Gate Park - that’s where these two were sighted yesterday. Sometimes, you can see a lot of California’s official state bird at Strybing Arboretum and sometimes you can’t. Thesse critters can fly away from danger, but they generally don’t like being out in the open. The kind of environment that they prefer is not present in S.F. as much as before.
Godspeed, little quail.
