The last few days have been really crazy for me - teaching two classes, hosting Katie Pollard for two talks at @ucdavis, sponsoring & speaking at Seed Central event, gave talk to council of deans & vice chancellors, lab meeting, & on single parent duty while wife was away 1/n
So one thing that I had to ditch, mostly, was my attempt to get out and about walking / hiking and birding although I did keep posting tiny bits to @inaturalist to keep up my hope to post every day #DailyiNat 2/n
Today was particularly wacky - kid duty in AM, dropped kids off at school, 2 phone calls, teaching 11-12:30, set up for Seed Central event, talk 2:15, head across campus to introduce Katie Pollard for talk, attend talk, moderate Q & A, back to Seed Central, sit at booth, home 3/n
(As an aside, OMG how do single parents do this? my wife got home this PM and I barely survived three days of single parent duty) 4/n
But ... in the few minutes where I had to drive between events, I took a ~5 minute detour to drive on the road near the @ucdavis @CalRaptorCenter, parked, got out by Putah Creek w/ my camera and got a wonderful sighting of an American Kestrel hunting 5/n 
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