Here are a few photos from my brief stroll through the Niles Staging Area of the Alameda Creek Regional Trail yesterday:

• I saw a very unusual cloud in the sky above me. Obviously, love was in the air! ❤️

• An Oak Titmouse was in a tree. . .

. . . An invasive Peruvian Pepper Tree! 😮

I immediately told the Titmouse not to spread the tree’s berry seeds anywhere nearby. It replied that it would make sure it pooped in the garbage. Thank you, Titmouse! And thank you, Siri!

• There was a mallard crashing into another mallard. You can’t hear it in the photo, but the one in the back is yelling at the one in front, “DUCK!!!!”

• A Black Phobe (left), a Crow (middle), and a Greater Yellowlegs (right) posed for me.

• And I saw a jet plane racing a hawk! . . .

. . . The plane won.

• And finally, I saw some squirrels eating mushrooms.

The mushrooms, with blue pigment inside of them, happeded to look remarkably similar to the psychoactive, hallucinogenic Gymnopilus “magic” mushrooms (such as Gymnopilus luteofolius, Gymnopilus thiersii, Gymnopilus aeruginosus, and Gymnopilus dilepis). Uh oh!

I probably should have hung around to see if the squirrels started driving around in a florally decorated Volkswagen Van and playing rock music on sitars . . . But I didn’t want to be considered an accessory to any shenanigans, so I skedaddled.

There may have been a heart floating above us in the air that day, but the squirrels probably only saw Lucy in the sky. With Diamonds!