Welcome to the Mission Creek Community Naturalist Blog! We will try and post a weekly update of your observations in the park. Please share your comments here and in the field notebooks and send photos you would like be posted to: teal.waterstrat@gmail.com. Thanks for participating and I hope you enjoy sharing your own sightings, feelings, and discoveries in the park!
Here's our first weeks entry of species and observations. We are looking forward to watching it grow!
- Feb 5 & 6: Coyote (Canis latrans) sightings in the meadow early in day
- Feb 8: Pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) seen through out park. Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) in tall tree near San Francisco St. border of park. -CM
- Feb 9: Sunny and brisk with southerly wind and high cumulus clouds
- Feb 11: Snow on ground. Sunny and clear. Animal tracks and snowman sighted near bigleaf maple (Acer macrophyllum) with swing. Sparrow species (song or fox) and nuthatch (?) noted.
- Feb 13: Pileated woodpecker spotted near Edison street
- Feb 14: Unidentified songbird (possible towhee from song description- "part chirp, part quack")
2 comments:
What a great idea- I love MIssion Creek and the creatures who live in it.
Yes, we agree. Thanks for putting this together - we posted it on our blog under our Favorites and will check it (and hopefully contribute) regularly!
Anyone know how Mission Creek got it's name?
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