From Tim Clark, our Land Bank Steward:

“A very large thank you to everyone who made the Spring Ramble such a  large success. Twenty people had a wonderful time wandering and looking  and talking and learning. An extra thanks goes out to David and Beth for  sharing their knowledge and curiosity of the plants and birds on the  Hill! Everyone commented on what fun it was and how much they learned.  And we all made it out alive!”

Beth St. George identified the following plants in bloom:

Dovefoot Geranium
Woodland Strawberry
Spotted Coralroot
Trailing Blackberry
Bicknell’s Geranium (I think this is the correct species)
Pacific Sanicle
Candyflower = Siberian Miner’s Lettuce
Small-flowered Alumroot
Sea Blush
Bedstraw (Fragrant?)
Foamflower
Baldhip Rose
Heart-leaved Twayblade
Miner’s Lettuce
Great Camas
Buttercup species: I don’t know these well.

David and Beth’s bird list:

Cassin’s Vireo
Townsend’s Warbler
Pacific Wren
Wilson’s Warbler
Dark-eyed Junco
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Orange-crowned Warbler
Hairy Woodpecker
Song Sparrow
We must have seen American Robin, too, but I don’t have it written down!

Spring Ramble hikers on Burnt Stump Trail. Photo by Adrienne Adams.

Oyster mushrooms, Pleurotus ostreatus, growing on an Alder log. Photo by Adrienne Adams.

Spotted Coralroot, Corallorrhiza maculata. Photo by Adrienne Adams.

Sea blush, Plectritis congesta. Photo by Adrienne Adams.

The Panther mushroom, Amanita pantherina. Photo by Adrienne Adams.

One of Lopez Hill’s beautiful wetlands. Photo by Adrienne Adams.

Hikers on the Spring Ramble, 2014. Photo by Tim Clark.

Red-banded Polypore, Fomitopsis pinicola. Photo by Beth St. George.

Camas lillies and buttercups on the top of The Hill. Photo by Beth St. George.