What We Saw On Our Hike To Hidden Lake On Mt. Burdell

Here's Wendy's list of what we saw when we hiked on Mt. Burdell last Tuesday (April 22nd). (In case you want to do the hike again on your own, Wendy says that these are the trails we took: San Marin Fire Road to San Carlos Fire Road, right on Salt Lick Fire Road, left on Middle Burdell Fire Road past 2 Brick Springs, left on San Andreas Fire Road).

FLOWERS

WHITE

popcorn flower, OWL'S CLOVER (look closely and use imagination

to see the little owl sitting there), subterranean clover (non-native, quail birth control in bad years), baby stars, water cress (non-native), Douglas iris (cream color), cottontops (non-native), yarrow

YELLOW

CREAM CUPS (yellow and cream, poppy family so no sepals), seep spring monkeyflower (red dots on yellow flower), buttercups, suncups, Pacific snakeroot, narrow-leaf mules ears, tidy tips, GOLDEN BANNERS, MOTH MULLEIN (that one by the stream I said was non-native but I forgot the name)

PINK

checkerbloom, BITTERROOT (AKA Lewisia) at the only place it grows in Marin, storksbill (5 petal flower, spiral seeds stick in your socks, several species in the genus Erodium), tomcat clover, WINDMILL PINK (not native)

PURPLE

blue dicks (actually purple), OOKOW, blue-eyed grass (six petals, yellow center, grass-like narrow leaves), purple sanicle, larkspur, BLUE-HEADED GILIA (but it’s purple!), WALLY BASKET aka ITHURIEL'S SPEAR, lupine, wooly vetch (not native), SALSIFY (aka oyster root, non-native, edible root)

ORANGE

poppies, scarlet pimpernel (salmon color, introduced from Europe), fiddleneck

GONE TO SEED

SHINING PEPPERGRASS

BUTTERFLIES

California ringlet (pale "mothish looking" with tiny ring on hind wings, weak flyer), PAINTED LADY

BIRDS

Acorn woodpecker, dark-eyed junco, violet-green swallows, mockingbirds, female BULLOCK’S ORIOLE

Heard: spotted towhee (to-wheeeee), Pacific slope flycatcher, Hutton’s vireo (repeats, “water torture bird”), mourning dove

Dead Townsend’s warbler, dead oak titmouse.

VELVET ANT (which is a wingless wasp)

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