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Sunrise from highway 152
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Sunrise from highway 152
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Sunrise from highway 152
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Cattle grazing near Pig Pond,
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Cattle grazing near Pig Pond
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Pig wallow at edge of Pig Pond
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Sue scrofa, FERAL PIG track
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Rumex sp., DOCK, emerging from beneath a cow pie.
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Eric searching for tiger salamanders
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Buckeye branches, covered with orange lichen
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Colorful lichens on buckeye branch.
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Buckeyes in the creek bed were moist and starting to split.
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Crandal's telegraph splice - an old style of barbed wire
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We followed the creek downstream.
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URCHIN GALL on blue oak leaves.
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URCHIN GALL on blue oak leaves.
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URCHIN GALL on blue oak leaves.
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Taricha torosa, CALIFORNIA NEWT
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Taricha torosa, CALIFORNIA NEWT
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Taricha torosa, CALIFORNIA NEWT
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Remains of yellowjacket nest, probably torn apart by skunks.
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FIESTA FLOWER seedling
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Eric holding elk jawbone and spine
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Cervus canadensis, ELK, outlined against the sky
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Elk droppings
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Elk droppings with white fungus
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Badger hole. The freshly excavated soil is a good place to look for artifacts
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Salt Creek, with its many sycamores
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This rock looks like it has a clump of grass growing on top.
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the grass was actually growing through a hole through the rock - a killed mortar!
