[mid-valley-nature:627] Naturalist Adventure report

[Don Boucher]

Hello,

 

For the Naturalist Adventure, we explored the Homestead Trail along Oak Creek in McDonald Forest. A fabulous warm spring morning with warblers, wildflowers and butterflies.

 

While we were waiting at Avery Park for carpooling, we listened to Orange-crowned, Townsend's, Wilson's and Black-throated Gray Warblers. Lisa got this photo of a Townsend's Chipmunk (do not view if your cuteness threshold is low).

 

Our trip along the forested Homestead Trail was very productive.

 

Here's a list of wildflowers:

Pacific Waterleaf (Hydrophyllum tenuipes)

Tall Larkspur (Delphinium trolliifolium)

Robert Geranium (Geranium robertianum)

Pacific Bleedingheart (Dicentra formosa)

Western Meadowrue (Thalictrum occidentale)

Small Windflower (Anemone lyallii) - photo below

Western Spring-beauty (Cardamine nuttallii)

Spring Queen (Synthyris reniformis)

Sessile Trillium (Trillium albidum)

Wild Ginger (Asarum caudatum)

Stream Violet (Viola glabella)

Chocolate Lily (Fritillaria lanceolata)

Striped Coralroot (Corallorhiza striata)

Small Camas (Camas quamash)

 

Birds:

Turkey Vulture

Steller's Jay

Winter Wren

Bewick's Wren

Chestnut-backed Chickadee

Black-capped Chickadee

Red-breasted Nuthatch

Brown Creeper

Wilson's Warbler

Black-throated Gray Warbler

Orange-crowned Warbler

Purple Finch

Golden-crowned Kinglet

Song Sparrow

Evening Grosbeak

Pine Siskin

Red Crossbill

 

Butterflies

Spring Azure (numerous)

Mustard White

Sara Orangetip

Comma species

 

The next Naturalist Adventure is May 16. We're leading other field trips during Natural Areas Celebration Week in early May:

http://www.neighborhood-naturalist.com/neighborhood-naturalist_events.htm

 

Don Boucher
Corvallis, OR
www.Neighborhood-Naturalist.com

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