Monday, June 22, 2009

Field Notes June 14th-22nd 2009

June 14th, 2009:
- we saw so many berries. You can't believe how many grow in the forrest. They are everywhere you go. -Roma

June 16th, 2009:
- Mama bird sitting on a nest (thrush?) in a vine maple on path to left off San fran entrance. 6pm warm overcast

June 18th, 2009:
- Enjoying reading peoples' identifications and descriptions! (thanks to the person who named Hawthorne trees on April 2nd!). So many different bird songs happening! Thanks to all the writers for the notes! - a neighbor

June 20th, 2009:
-There are so many Salmon berries! They are a little bit sour-but Ella gobbled them up!
-Rebecca

June 22nd, 2009
-We found the secret swing and fixed it. Beautiful!

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Field Notes June 1st-7th 2009

The bracken fern keeps getting a little taller every week and the open spaces are almost all filled in with inumerous shades of green. I bet those lizards were Northern Alligator Lizards.


June 1st, 2009:
-1:30pm- saw lizards scuttling away in the sunny meadow. Black capped chickadee, Flicker, Robins, Spotted Towhee.

June 2nd, 2009:
-A WILD ANIMAL APPEARED FROM THE BRUSH

June 7th, 2009:
-We saw a daisy and sipped nectar from a red clover- AJALEA and Abbe

-9pm- raccoons on the prowl, bats on the wing, where did the Ethridge St sign go?

Monday, June 1, 2009

Field Notes May 27th-31st, 2009

May 27th, 2009:
-We live in the Garden of Eden.

-Happy Sunny day and Warm Evenings. The Swainson's thrushes are back and they're singing. Now its dusk and the bats are about. The hush of the sweet calm and the lovely scents of Spring. Glorious Green Belt! Doggy is very Happy and so am I!!!!

Unknown date, May 2009 (27-30th):
This is my first time on the trail. What a nice piece of nature to immerse yourself in, so close to so many neighborhoods.

May 30th, 2009:
-roufus sided towhee!

-4pm Moo oooon

- 8pm and warm, great evening for a walk in the woods in the lovely forest of Mission Creek. -Carol