Anza-Borrego DRC
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University of California, Irvine Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center. Located in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park - Borrego Springs, CA
Borrego Springs, CA
Joined August 2015
A house finch eating ocotillo flowers (Video: Sicco Rood).
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Cloudy sunrise this morning in Borrego Springs with some sprinkles west in the mountains (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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The last sunlight of today striking the west Coyote Mountain ridge. The Santa Rosa Mountains in the background (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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A desert cottontail rabbit at sunrise near the Reserve this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Ocotillo sunrise yesterday morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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A northern mockingbird at the Reserve yesterday (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Unusual to see regular airplanes or private jets doing donuts over the Borrego skies this morning (or where they kettling like birds to gain altitude?). Photos: Sicco Rood.
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An agave flowering near Sunset Mountain (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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@MiloParis1999 It's a mavic 3 multispectral drone. We'll use it for projects, like mapping dead/alive Joshua trees over time, or measuring wind driven sand deposits on abandoned farmlands behind sand fences.
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Sunrise this morning out at Texas Dip (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Borrego is one of the rainbow capitals of the world (when it rains!), due to the rain shadow topography. This intense double rainbow appeared in the valley just minutes ago (Photo: Sicco Rood). @NWSSanDiego
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By sunrise, the snow level around Borrego Springs had dropped to about 4500 feet west and around 5000 feet on the Santa Rosa Mountains further east (photo: Sicco Rood).
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First snow of the season visible (above 7000 feet approximately) on Toro Peak this afternoon (photo: Sicco Rood).
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First rainbow 🌈 above Coyote Canyon today (photo: Sicco Rood).
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First raindrops on desert floor in Borrego Springs (video:Sicco Rood).
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The reddish sun made an appearance only for a few minutes on a mostly overcast early morning. Shown here reflected in the Salton Sea (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Power just got restored in Borrego Springs. It was turned off yesterday early afternoon due to the high Santa Ana winds. Yesterday's sunrise (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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@alikat747 Good point. I wouldn't give up location if it was say a mountain lion or a rare animal that gets poached. Coyotes are everywhere here and fortunately not hunted in this area.
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