Okay, birdnerds, I have no skill in identifying birds. Is this a Western Tanager? I googled “fat yellow bird” and this was my best guess.
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Mystery 2: I always thought this fern that I rescued from a dark corner near the foundation was a sword fern. But it looks perpetually alert, which isn’t normal for sword ferns.
It has small, reddish-brown sori that don’t overlap and the teeth on the fronds are smooth and very close together.
The best guess I have is Dryopteris dickinsii, common name “large peacock fern” or “crisped shaggy wood fern” (very catchy, whoever came up with that one). Anybody think that sounds right? And can I propagate it? I want a billion of these in my yard.
