Citizen Science Association meeting bioblitz!

I've been in California since Monday evening, and I've had the great pleasure of meeting and spending time with several awesome folks. Today there was a bioblitz in San Jose at the first meeting of the Citizen Science Association. My first bioblitz!

I learned a useful trick from Ken-ichi (aka kueda) who carries a white plastic bowl to keep critters captive for macro photography. My observations with the white background were taken in his bowl.

The event was in a little urban riparian park with its fair share of litter, but Cullen found an arboreal salamander under a cardboard box. Someone else found a California slender salamander from digging around in leaf litter, and that same person spotted a hummingbird nest with two chicks in it (no pics of that from me).

Posted on February 13, 2015 06:44 AM by carrieseltzer