La Cresta Critters

This blog is a catalog of all the critters that I've come across here on our property in La Cresta (Santa Rosa Plateau, Murrieta, SW Riverside County, CA) and managed, sometimes barely, to photograph.

Saturday, August 4, 2018

Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii)

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  7/5/18 Identified with the help of our resident professional bird photographer par excellence,  Richard Cronberg. This was my ...
Friday, May 11, 2018

Hutton's Vireo (Vireo huttoni)

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11/25/12 Tentatively identified as a Hutton's Vireo with feedback from expert birder and photographer, Richard Cronberg. On a mesq...
Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Red Diamondback Rattlesnake (Crotalus ruber)

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8/21/2012 Under one of our bird feeders.
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Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Common Gray (Anavitrinella pampinaria)

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4/28/15 On the wall of our front portico, Kyle Court, La Cresta, Murrieta, SW Riverside County, CA  4/28/15 
Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Western Tussock Moth (Orgyia cana)

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  5/11/15 On the dining room area rug. 5/11/15
Saturday, February 17, 2018

American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)

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 1/14/18 Under the bird feeders. 1/14/18

Wrentit (Chamaea fasciata)

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 2/10/18 At the suet feeder. 2/10/18
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

White-Lined Sphinx Moth (Hyles lineata)

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 4/27/17 On a curtain panel in the master bedroom. They like to fly into the house at night  towards the light of the blazing lamp on ...
Thursday, December 29, 2016

Merlin (Falco columbarius)

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So cool to see this Merlin on our property since the last sighting was seven years ago in 2009!  12/28/16 On the Engelmann Oak above...
Thursday, November 17, 2016

Monarch (Danaus plexippus)

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Monarchs aren't common here on our property and the few times I'd seen them over the past 10 years, I was never able to actually g...
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