What We Saw on The Bolinas Ridge/Randall Trail Hike (August 12)

Here's the flora and fauna (and poop) that Wendy cataloged from our August 12th hike along the Bolinas Ridge and down the Randall Trail:

GALLS

Chinquapin Flower Gall, Dryocosmus castanopsidis – red gall on chinquapin flowers, made by a wasp.

FLOWERS

Chapparral pea flower still blooming, sticky monkeyflower, Crocosmia (non-native orange flower in Iris family)

LEAVES OF FLOWERS THAT FINISHED BLOOMING

Clintonia (some with a few blue berries), salal, rattlesnake plantain (an orchid, not a plantain – go figure!), Trillium, thimbleberry, salal, coralroot, trail plant, ground iris, pitcher sage, fairy bells, Pacific star flower, fetid adder’s tongue, California blackberry, redwood evergreen violet

BERRIES

LOTS of huckleberries, coffee berries (some ripe, some red), manzanita berries, unripe (green) honeysuckle, poison oak berries, ripe blue elderberries

FERNS

Lady fern, bracken, sword fern

SHRUBS

SHATTERBERRY (manzanita with hairs on stem), and two species of Ceanothus - INDIGO BUSH, Blue Blosson

TREES

Madrone, tan oak (very light new leaves), redwood, Douglas fir, interior live oak (both toothed and smooth margined leaves on the same tree, acorn shaped like coast live oak, but with cap coming down further on nut)

BUTTERFLIES

California ringlet, American lady (larval food cudweeds)

BIRDS

Saw: Dark-eyed juncos, osprey, brown creeper, glimpse of a Swainson’s thrush (Wendy and Susan), glimpse of a winter wren

Heard: Red-breasted nuthatch, wrentit

POOP

Raccoon tracks and scat.

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