What We Saw on The Dogtown to Five Brooks Hike (August 26)

Here's the list of plants, birds, and bugs spotted on our hike "downhill" from Dogtown to Five Brooks on the Olema Valley trail:

FLOWERS

White: YAMPAH

Purple: giant coastal hedge nettle

Orange: poppies, Crocosmia (not native)

BUTTERFLIES:

Satyr comma (aka satyr anglewings, host plant stinging nettles), buckeye (not netted, one host plant is English plantain), California ringlets, Mylitta crescents (host plant thistles, not netted)

TREES

Bay trees have bay nuts, BOX ELDER (aka ashleaf maple) which is common in the eastern half of the US from Texas to Canada, hazel with catkins, red alder (same family at birch, different genus), English hawthorn with berries

MISC PLANTS

Native blackberry, Armenian blackberry, stinging nettles, horsetails, huckleberries, thimbleberry leaves (no berries), blue elderberry

FERNS

Chain, lady, bracken

SPIDERS

Condominium spiders (aka labyrinth spiders), one with Multi-color Asian Lady Beetle (Harmonia axyridis) in web

BIRDS

Heard: wrentit, osprey

Saw: winter wren, scrub jays, CA quail, chestnut-back chickadee, song sparrow (only seen by Karen)

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