What We Saw on The Laguna to Bay View Hike (November 4)

Here's Wendy's catalog of the critters and plants we found on this hike:

BIRDS

Red-tailed hawk, osprey, ravens, turkey vultures, RED-BREASTED SAPSUCKER

Heard: wrentit, Neil found Northern flicker feather

PLANTS

Red alder (white is usually more inland), buckeye trees laden with buckeyes, coffeeberry bushes with lots of ripe coffeeberries, a few hucklesberries left, elderberry

SPIDERS

Lots of condominium spiders!

LOTS OF BANANA SLUGS

BUTTERFLIES

West coast lady (host plant hollyhocks and other mallows and also lupine)

FUNGI

BROWN-EYED PARASOL. The Bolete’s pores changed from white to yellow, and the cap from gray to brown, but ID still unknown so far.

CATERPILLER

Lophocampa maculata which will become a tiger moth.

OUR ROUTE

Laguna trail to Bayview trail to Muddy Hollow. Paved road from Muddy Hollow back to cars.

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