I got up around 6:30 this morning in a LOT of pain. I’d been able to sleep through the night without getting up to take a pain pill, and I was paying for the long stretch without meds with burning nerve pain and deep-tissue muscle ache from The Poltergeist.

I had been planning on going to the Sacramento Zoo today to see the new baby giraffe, Glory, and I was worried that the pain would make that impossible.  I was grateful, then, when around 8:30 The Poltergeist was relatively quiet again.

The COVID protocols at the zoo were better enforced this time than they were the last time I was there. Everyone except the very youngest kids were in masks all the time, and there were few enough people so that everyone could easily do social distancing. Of course, there are always assholes who think they’re above the laws and do whatever they want. I was glad to see others “shunning” them, and giving them dirty looks when they got too close.  One guy started arguing with another about the benefits of masks.

The pro-mask guy was one who said he’d gotten COVID and it wasn’t a walk in the park. “When they made seatbelts mandatory, you wore one, right? When they made motorcycle helmets you wore one, right?”

            “But seat belts and helmet save lives!” the other guy complained.

            “So do masks!”

I wanted to hug him – but I didn’t. I did give him an enthusiastic thumbs up, though.

I was able to see lots of the animals I wanted to see as I walked through the zoo.  I think the only ones I really missed was the river otters. They weren’t out.  [And the reptile house was closed, so I couldn’t go in there.]

My mission was to see Glory, and I was pleased to find her out with her mom, Shani, her “aunties”, and dad.  Glory was born on September 20^th of this year. The zoo held an auction for someone to have the right to name her and the winner paid $10,000 for the privilege.

I got quite a few photos and a little video snippet of Glory, but also got to witness a “Flehman Response” from the male giraffe that I’d never seen or heard about before.

Lots of animals do this Flehman Response thing, including black-tailed deer. The animal inhales with its mouth open and upper lip curled to expose the scent/pheromone to the “vomeronasal organ” in the roof of the mouth behind the front teeth. The scent they take in helps them determine the pheromone levels and receptivity of the females so they can tell who’s mature and who isn’t, and who’s ready to breed and who isn’t.

            “…The behavior may be performed over particular locations, in which case the animal may also lick the site of interest, or may perform the flehmen with the neck stretched and head held high in the air for a more general gustatory or taste-related investigation… The flehmen response draws air into the VNO or Jacobson’s organ, an auxiliary olfactory sense organ that is found in many animals. This organ plays a role in the perception of certain scents and pheromones…”

Anyway, the male giraffe, a big Masai Giraffe, walked up behind one of the females and prodded her in the behind until she started to urinate.  Then he drank the urine as it flowed out of her. [[Kids seeing this all went, “Eeeeeeeeew!” and some of the parents did, too. Hah!]] After getting a mouthful, he lifted his head and let the stuff drain out from either side of his mouth while he inhaled its scent. He then followed after the female, continuing to sniff at her. 

Across the walk from the giraffes, the male Snow Leopard, Blizzard, was also doing a Flehman sniff, sticking out his tongue and curling his lips after sniffing and licking at the grass in their enclosure. I think the female had been out there earlier and he was working on her scent. He also rolled around in the spots where he liked the scent the best.

Boys are weird. Hah!

Among the other “newbies” at the zoo, like Glory,  I also saw the newborn Wolf’s Guenon (born on September 8^th) with its mom, Mimi, and the three new Squirrel Monkeys, Blaze, Taco and Arlo. I was astonished by how TINY they all were.  The baby Wolf’s Guenon was so small it could fit in the palm of your hand…and the Squirrel Monkeys weren’t much larger. The baby Wolf’s Guenon was running around, exploring its enclosure, learning how to climb, but mom, Mimi kept a close eye on it.  Every now and then, she gather it up against her body and saunter off with it as if to say, “Okay, human, you’ve seen enough. Walk on.”

The little Squirrel Monkeys were in a small enclosure behind the lion exhibit. I wonder if the scent and sounds of the lions spooked them. It was chilly outside, and they all seemed cold and a bit afraid of everything. They stayed huddled inside a box in their enclosure behind some dirty plexiglass so it was hard to see or photograph them.

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There were wild squirrels, ducks, and rats all over the place, taking advantage of the free food scattered in the different enclosures. There were lots of wild Wood Ducks in the Flamingo pond, and a Green Heron hunting for insects inside the alligator pit.  And, of course, being a naturalist, I was just as interested in the heron ad I was in the alligators.  I also took some photos of a big orb-weaver spider’s web near the pond. Hah!  [I wonder if anyone else noticed those things.]

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The ostriches were out and about, but before I could get any good photos of the zebras, they were gone inside their barn. The Emus were out, as were the kangaroos and wallabies. I love the ostrich’s and emu’s feathers, they’re so big and so soft…

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I avoided the meerkat exhibit because there were so many germ kids around it, putting their hands and faces against the glass. “High Contact Area”. I did look in on Padme the aardvark. She was fast asleep inside her cave with the heat lamp on her.

Around 11 o’clock I stopped by the café for a light lunch of soda and a fried pretzel with salt.

In among the birds in the flamingo pond there was a juvenile who still had gray feathering on her otherwise pink neck, some White-faced Whistling Ducks, Mallards, and Comb Ducks as well as an American White Pelican.

I walked through the place for about 3 hours before heading back home. The walk was nice and I saw a lot of critters so I felt it was a worthwhile excursion.

Species List:

1. Aardvark, Orycteropus afer
2. African Lion, Panthera leo
3. American Alligator, Alligator mississippiensis
4. American White Pelican, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
5. Anna’s Hummingbird, Calypte anna
6. Azure-winged Magpie, Cyanopica cyanus
7. Bird of Paradise, Crane Flower, Strelitzia reginae
8. Brown Rat, Rattus norvegicus
9. Caribbean Flamingo, Phoenicopterus ruber
10. Chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes
11. Chinese Stripe-necked Turtle, Mauremys sinensis
12. Comb Duck, Sarkidiornis melanotos
13. Common Crow, American Crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos
14. Crested Coua, Coua cristata
15. Crested Screamer, Chauna torquata
16. Douglas Squirrel, Tamiasciurus douglasii
17. Eastern Gray Squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis
18. Emu, Dromaius novaehollandiae
19. Green Heron, Butorides virescens
20. Grevy’s Zebra, Equus grevyi
21. Hawk-headed Parrot, Deroptyus accipitrinus
22. Himalayan Monal, Lophophorus impejanus
23. Japanese Aralia, Paperplant, Fatsia japonica
24. Mallard duck, Anas platyrhynchos
25. Masai Giraffe, Giraffa tippelskirchi
26. Mongoose Lemur, Eulemur mongoz
27. Ostrich, Common Ostrich, Struthio camelus
28. Pigeon, Domestic Pigeon, Columba livia domestica
29. Pyracantha, Firethorn,  Pyracantha coccinea
30. Red Billed Hornbill, Tockus erythrorhynchus
31. Red Kangaroo, Macropus rufus
32. Red Panda, Ailurus fulgens
33. Red River Hog, Potamochoerus porcus
34. Reticulated Giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata
35. Snow Leopard, Panthera uncia
36. Spur-winged Lapwing, Vanellus spinosus
37. Squirrel Monkey, Saimiri sciureus
38. Stinking Iris, Iris foetidissima
39. Sumatran Orangutan, Pongo abelii
40. Tawny Frogmouth, Podargus strigoides
41. Thick-billed Parrot, Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha
42. Western Spotted Orbweaver Spider, Neoscona oaxacensis
43. White-faced Saki, Pithecia pithecia
44. White-faced Whistling Duck, Dendrocygna viduata
45. Wolf’s Guenon, Wolf’s Mona Monkey, Cercopithecus wolfi
46. Wood Duck, Aix sponsa
47. Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby, Petrogale xanthopus

I got up around 6:30 this morning, and after breakfast was ready to head out with my friend Roxanne to visit the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area. I’d been to their offices before for classes and whatnot, but had never been out on the auto tour or trails before. I was hoping to see some Yellow-headed Blackbirds there, but…no luck.

We did see quite a few raptors including Red-Tailed Hawks, Red-Shouldered Hawks and Kites while we were out there. When we first started on the auto tour route, we came across a guy who was by his truck, taking photos of a Kite in a distant tree. “You missed it,” he said. “He just finished breakfast.”

The bird was pretty far away, but we were able to get a few photos of it. Further along the route we came across another tree with a pair of Kites in it.

Because of the lack of water on the ground there were no waterfowl to see along the auto tour route.  We were disappointed that it seemed that half of the length of the auto tour route was closed, so there was no way to make the complete loop.  [I think the last half was shut down because there were active hunters back there.]

So, the bypass was pretty much a bust today. It’ll get more interesting as soon as the fields are flooded and we get some rain.

Not to be completely deterred, Rox and I then headed over to the Woodland-Davis Clean Water Agency water treatment plant to see if anything was in the ponds there.  [This is where the Ibis Rookery is, but the ibises are gone now.] We had better luck there than we had at the bypass.  One of the first things we saw was a gorgeous Ferruginous Hawk – the first one I’ve seen!  It was sitting on the crossbar of a telephone pole along the driveway.

Then in a plowed up field and along a drainage ditch, we saw a Great Blue Heron, several Great Egrets and Snowy Egrets. The egrets seemed to be watching a small flock of Great-Tailed Grackles that were in and around the sides of the ditch. 

The grackles were eating what looked like small crayfish from the trickle of water at the bottom of the ditch. One of the females had gotten hold of a piece of a crayfish and was manipulating it while trying to eat it. She was working so hard – and had to keep it away from the other birds that were trying to get a piece of it. 

Meanwhile, the male grackle found a tiny crayfish, no larger than a pea, and plucked it out of the algae before gobbling it up.

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As we went a little further, we saw more grackles and a pair of Ravens sitting up on a telephone pole across from the main pond.  Near where the Ravens were, we found what was left of a jackrabbit carcass, including its spine, a leg and foot, and its skull. I looked around for owl/hawk pellets, but didn’t see any.

In the pond itself we saw quite a variety of birds. Canada Geese, White-Fronted Geese, Northern Shovelers, Cinnamon Teals, Black-Necked Stilts, Mallards, gulls, Least Sandpipers, Greater Yellowlegs, Killdeer and Ruddy Ducks.

Along the gravel road by the main pond there were several bee boxes lined up, and they were all full of active bee colonies. There were yellow rectangles protruding from the top of the boxes that had a honeycomb pattern on them but were made of plastic. I tried looking them up, but couldn’t figure out what the structures were.

The really cool finds there were a lot of Eared Grebes and some Canvasback Ducks. I hardly ever see the Canvasbacks, so it’s always a treat to find them.  And I haven’t seen the Eared Grebes around here for four or five years, so I was really pleased to see them again.

We also saw a single Western Grebe and a Bufflehead duck among the other birds on the water.

We found a small “colony” of killdeer in the rocks along the low-water bridge part of the gravel road. Some were lying in the rocks and others were posing and scrambling around them.   

Along the way, we also came across some plants I hadn’t seen or documented before including Stinkwort and Tumbleweed. The tumbleweed was actually quite pretty: candy-cane striped branches and pink “flowers”. The whole thing was covered in thorns and each flower had poky spikes surrounding it, so the whole thing was stiff and scratchy. I’d seen tumbleweed in their desiccated state before, but never “fresh” like this. 

We were out for about 5 hours.

Species List:

1. American Coot, Fulica americana
2. Black Phoebe, Sayornis nigricans
3. Black-Necked Stilt, Himantopus mexicanus
4. Black-Tailed Jackrabbit, Lepus californicus
5. Blessed Milk Thistle, Silybum marianum
6. Brewer’s Blackbird, Euphagus cyanocephalus
7. Bufflehead Duck, Bucephala albeola
8. Canada Goose, Branta canadensis
9. Canvasback Duck, Aythya valisineria
10. Carrot, American Wild Carrot, Daucus pusillus
11. Cinnamon Teal, Anas cyanoptera
12. Common Raven, Corvus corax
13. Cooper’s Hawk, Acipiter cooperii
14. Eared Grebe, Podiceps nigricollis
15. European Honeybee, Western Honeybee, Apis mellifera
16. Ferruginous Hawk, Buteo regalis
17. Filamentous Green Algae, Spirogyra sp.
18. Fremont’s Cottonwood, Populus fremontii
19. Great Blue Heron, Ardea herodias
20. Great Egret, Ardea alba
21. Greater White-Fronted Goose, Anser albifrons
22. Greater Yellowlegs, Tringa melanoleuca
23. Great-Tailed Grackle, Quiscalus mexicanus
24. Gumweed, Great Valley Gumweed, Grindelia camporum
25. House Finch, Haemorhous mexicanus
26. House Sparrow, Passer domesticus
27. Interior Sandbar Willow, Salix interior
28. Killdeer, Charadrius vociferous
29. Least Sandpiper, Calidris minutilla
30. Long-Billed Dowitcher, Limnodromus scolopaceus
31. Mallard duck, Anas platyrhynchos
32. Northern Shoveler, Anas clypeata
33. Pied-Billed Grebe, Podilymbus podiceps
34. Purple Finch, Haemorhous purpureus
35. Red Swamp Crayfish, Crawfish, Crawdad, Procambarus clarkia
36. Red-Shouldered Hawk, Buteo lineatus
37. Red-Tailed Hawk, Buteo jamaicensis
38. Red-Winged Blackbird, Agelaius phoeniceus
39. Rock Pigeon, Columba livia
40. Rough Cocklebur, Xanthium strumarium
41. Ruddy Duck, Oxyura jamaicensis
42. Savannah Sparrow, Passerculus sandwichensis
43. Snow Goose, Chen caerulescens
44. Snowy Egret, Egretta thula
45. Stinkwort, Dittrichia graveolens
46. Tree Swallow, Tachycineta bicolor
47. Tule, Common Tule, Schoenoplectus acutus
48. Tumbleweed, Salsola tragus
49. Western Grebe, Aechmophorus occidentalis [black through eye]
50. Western Meadowlark, Sturnella neglecta
51. White Tailed Kite, Elanus leucurus
52. White-Crowned Sparrow, Zonotrichia leucophrys

Got up around 6:00 am and was out the door with my friend and fellow naturalist Roxanne to head over to the Gray Lodge Wildlife Area in Gridley (about 90 minutes from Sacramento). We’d never been there before, so we didn’t really know what to expect, but we’d seen posts on social media of the birds other folks are seeing there.

It’s early in the migration period, so there are mostly Pintails, Northern Shovelers and Snow Geese in big flocks all over the place – and that’s pretty much what we were seeing at this preserve. But over the next few months, sightings of other birds should sharply increase. Another factor working again us today was the fact that it was very windy in Gridley, so there was a lot of chop on the water in the wetland areas, and the birds were all kind of hunkered down to keep warm. Nonetheless, I could really see the potential of this preserve to become one of my go-to places in the future.

There is a 3-mile auto tour route that we followed, and a couple of trails, too. Along the auto tour route, there are turn-outs (some with porta-potties, which are GREATLY appreciated) and great viewing areas. It’s about half as long as the route at the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge, but far more open. We walked one of the trails as far as the wildlife blind… which was THE NICEST blind I’ve ever seen. It’s well shaded, had lots of viewing windows, polished benches to sit on, and room to bring in your gear – or even your lunch. I was very impressed with the place.

The views of the Sutter Buttes from around the preserve are excellent. We would have gotten more photos if the air wasn’t so smutty with smoke and dirt kicked up by all of the work being done on the surround ag properties right now.

As we were driving to toward where the pay station was and the auto tour route began, we stopped at one of the turnout to look at the huge pyracantha bushes on the side of the road, and watch several hawks and vultures coasting overhead on the wind. We also use the porta-potty unit there which was one of THE cleanest units I’ve ever seen.

There was a large willow tree near there that was wearing a thick “coat” of poison oak. And in another nearby tree was a juvenile Turkey Vulture. He was very young but fully fledged; his head and the tip of his beak were still very black. If we’d had all day to sit around there we might have been able to see his mom come to feed him.

Just before you get onto the auto tour route, there’s a kiosk to buy a land’s pass for the day. It’s $4.25 per person. You can buy an annual pass online (if you set up an account), but it’s by CALENDAR year and isn’t prorated; so, if you buy a pass in October it’s only good though December of the same year (2 months) but still costs you as much as a 12-month pass. So, it’s best to buy the annual pass in January.

Adjacent to the kiosk are some picnic tables, and access to the ADA compliant Wetland Discovery Trail. This one is a little over half a mile long and leads to a viewing platform. We didn’t walk it, but look forward to doing that during our next trip there.

In the ponds along the auto tour route we saw the usual suspects: Coots, Pipits, Northern Shovelers, Northern Pintails, Mallards, Killdeer, Wigeons, Green-Winged Teals, Greater Yellowlegs, a Common Gallinule, Greater White-Fronted Geese, Snow Geese, Canada Geese, Gadwalls, blackbirds, and others. Most of them were pretty far away, sheltering against the wind near stands of tules and other vegetation. So photo-taking wasn’t all that easy.

At one point, though, we found a Peregrine Falcon standing in a naked tree and were able to get a few photos of him before he flew off. And further along, we saw a Red-Tailed Hawk being harassed by a Raven. When the hawk set down on a berm to rest for moment, the Raven sat down nearby, resting too. Then they both took off again, with the Raven resuming its harassing activities.

In the group shots I got of the ducks was the pleasant surprise of finding a Eurasian Wigeon in among the American Wigeons and Northern Pintails. That was a “first” for me. I’ve seen pictures of them,of course, but I’ve never spotted one in the wild before. Very exciting.

When we’d completed the auto tour route, we parked in a pull-out, used the facilities there, and then walked down part of the 2-mile graveled Flyaway Loop Trail. This runs along the levees around some of the temporary and permanent wetland pools, and leads to the Betty Adamson Hide, the large bird blind. As I’d mentioned, this was the nicest-looking blind I’ve ever seen. On the side of the blind is an inverted V-shaped bat box. At Gray Lodge, there are supposed to be several species of bats including the California Myotis, Brazilian Free-tailed bat, Pallid Bat, and Western Red Bat. One of the windows looks right out onto the box, so it might be cool to sit there at dusk and see if anything flies into the box.

Along the trail were lots of blackberry vines and sweetbriar rose bushes, salt grass, tules and rushes, and a variety of riparian habitat trees: oaks, willows, cottonwood, boxelder, eucalyptus, ash…

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Rox pointed out the salt grass to me, and I was able to get photos of the exuded salt on its leaves along with close-up images of its pinkish “flowers”. I ran my fingers over the leaves and then licked them to taste the salt, but I didn’t put my tongue on the plant itself. Hah! Salty!

We saw a variety of dragonflies, still in flight although late in the season, including Black Saddlebags, Variegated Meadowhawks, Pondhawks, and Green Darners. We saw some of them, male-and-female pairs, flying in tandem and some in-wheel. We also saw a pair of the Meadowhawks depositing eggs on the water.

There were a lot of incredibly tiny butterflies (no larger than my fingernail) flitting around the foot of the plants on the trail. I managed to get some photos of them, and believe they were Western Pygmy-Blues, the smallest butterflies in North America. Their wings, when open, are dusky copper with a purple-blue blush down the middle, with each wing rimmed in white. Sooooo pretty; and so much remarkable detail for such tiny things. Their host plants include pigweed, saltbrush and amaranth plants. “…After mating, females lay eggs on all parts of the host plant, oftenmost on the uppersides of leaves…” Considering how small these guys are, can you imagine how miniscule their eggs, caterpillars and chrysalises must be?!

The biggest surprise, was finding the biggest grasshopper I’d ever seen. It was a dark luscious green with a yellow stripe down its pronotum and bright red hind tibiae. It was a kind of “bird grasshopper”, called that because it can fly very high and very fast like a bird; a Spotted Bird Grasshopper, Schistocerca lineata.

I had a little trouble ID-ing it at first because this species comes in a variety of different color including reddish-brown, yellowish-brown, yellowish-green, olive-green, olive-brown, or dark brown. The color changes with age and is also dependent on the surrounding environment. This particular species overwinters as an adult (rather than in egg form in the ground like most grasshopper species). Females are larger than males.  I’m guessing we found a female.

I first caught sight of it hanging underneath the leaf of a blackberry vine. I could see one of its legs and its long abdomen and at first I thought it might be a mantis of some kind. On closer inspection, I realized it was a grasshopper. I reached into the blackberry vines to try to get a hold of it, but every time I got close to it, it would death-drop down further into the brambles. I finally used my old-lady-cane to pull the thorn-covered vines away and got hold of it. It was totally worth the scratches. As big as it was, it had a lot of power in its hind legs, so we held it by the thorax and the wings in order to get photos of it before releasing it again into the thicket.

When we got back to the car from the trail, we stopped for bit to sit in the shade and have our lunch before heading home again. All in all, we were out for about 8 hours. It was a fun, interesting and informative day. I really enjoyed it… and am looking forward to going back to the preserve a little later in the season (preferably when it’s not so windy).

Species List:

1. American Coot, Fulica americana
2. American Kestrel, Falco sparverius
3. American Pipit, Anthus rubescens
4. American Robin, Turdus migratorius
5. American Wigeon, Anas Americana
6. Armenian Blackberry, Rubus armeniacus [pink flowers]
7. Audubon’s Warbler, Yellow-Rumped Warbler, Setophaga coronata auduboni
8. Black Phoebe, Sayornis nigricans
9. Black Saddlebags Dragonfly, Tramea lacerata
10. Black-Necked Stilt, Himantopus mexicanus
11. Blessed Milk Thistle, Silybum marianum
12. Boxelder, Box Elder Tree, Acer negundo
13. Brewer’s Blackbird, Euphagus cyanocephalus
14. California Towhee, Melozone crissalis
15. Canada Goose, Branta canadensis
16. Common Gallinule, Gallinula galeata
17. Common Raven, Corvus corax
18. Eurasian Collared Dove, Streptopelia decaocto
19. Eurasian Wigeon, Mareca penelope
20. Gadwall duck, Mareca Strepera
21. Golden Crowned Sparrow, Zonotrichia atricapilla
22. Great Blue Heron, Ardea herodias
23. Great Egret, Ardea alba
24. Greater White-Fronted Goose, Anser albifrons
25. Greater Yellowlegs, Tringa melanoleuca
26. Green Darner Dragonfly, Anax junius
27. Green-Winged Teal, Anas carolinensis
28. Herring Gull, Larus argentatus [spot on bill, gray legs, pale eye]
29. Killdeer, Charadrius vociferous
30. Mallard duck, Anas platyrhynchos
31. Marsh Wren, Cistothorus palustris [heard]
32. Mosquito, Common House Mosquito, Culex pipiens
33. Mourning Dove, Zenaida macroura
34. Non-Biting Midge, Chironomus sp.
35. Northern Flicker, Colaptes auratus
36. Northern Harrier, Marsh Hawk, Circus hudsonius
37. Northern Mockingbird, Mimus polyglottos
38. Northern Pintail, Anas acuta
39. Northern Shoveler, Anas clypeata
40. Parrot’s Feather, Myriophyllum aquaticum [water plant]
41. Peregrine Falcon, Falco peregrinus
42. Poison Oak, Pacific Poison Oak, Western Poison Oak, Toxicodendron diversilobum
43. Prickly Pear, Opuntia sp.
44. Pyracantha, Firethorn, Pyracantha coccinea
45. Red-Tailed Hawk, Buteo jamaicensis
46. Red-Winged Blackbird, Agelaius phoeniceus
47. Rough Cocklebur, Xanthium strumarium
48. Salt Grass, Distichlis spicata
49. Smartweed, Persicaria lapathifolia [white]
50. Snow Goose, Chen caerulescens
51. Snowy Egret, Egretta thula
52. Spotted Bird Grasshopper, Schistocerca lineata
53. Spotted Towhee, Pipilo maculatus [heard]
54. Sulphur Shelf Fungus, Western Hardwood Sulphur Shelf, Laetiporus gilbertsonii
55. Swamp Smartweed, False Water-Pepper, Persicara hydropiperoides [pink]
56. Sweet-Brier Rose, Rosa rubiginosa
57. Tasmanian Blue Gum Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus globulus [white flowers]
58. Turkey Vulture, Cathartes aura
59. Variegated Meadowhawk Dragonfly, Sympetrum corruptum
60. Western Gull, Larus occidentalis
61. Western Meadowlark, Sturnella neglecta
62. Western Pondhawk Dragonfly, Erythemis collocata
63. Western Pygmy-Blue Butterly, Brephidium exilis exilis 
64. White Ash Tree, Fraxinus americana
65. White-Crowned Sparrow, Zonotrichia leucophrys
66. White-Faced Ibis, Plegadis chihi
67. ?? Tiny rounded droppings (chipmunk?)