Travels of a Certified California Naturalist
Around 8:30 I headed over to the American River Bend Park for a fungus walk. With all of the rain we’ve been having, I thought there would be a good sampling out there – and I wasn’t disappointed. I walked for about 2 ½ hours and covered about 2 miles. S-L-O-W walker. A fungus walk […]
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For those of you who don’t know, I’ve been away from the blog for about a month because I was diagnosed with two types of cancer and had major surgery in December to remove a softball-sized tumor (Which I dubbed “Wilson”) from my abdomen. I also had a full hysterectomy and have been spending the […]
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It was foggy and cold most of the day, about 41° in the morning, and in the 50’s by the late afternoon. I headed over to the Cosumnes River Preserve for a walk even though Wilson was hurting a bit. It was super foggy out there, so it was nearly impossible to see any birds, […]
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I got up around 7:00 am and headed over to the Effie Yeaw Nature Preserve again for a walk. It was chilly, around 39°, and foggy at the river when I got there and remained cool and overcast all day. At the preserve, there were a lot of Red-Shouldered Hawks out and about today, all […]
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It was chilly and overcast for most of the day, but not much in the way of rain. I got up around 7:00 am, right around the same time Lissa got up and let her dogs out for their morning potty. I got Sergeant Margie outside and fed him his breakfast. I had a small […]
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I got up around 6:30 this morning, and decided I’d try going out to the Sacramento and Colusa National Wildlife Refuges. It’s a long drive and I wasn’t sure how Wilson (my tumor) would react to sitting in a vibrating thing, accelerating and decelerating for hours at a time. I tried going without any pain […]
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Since this is the only day for about a week that is supposed to be without rain, I decided to try taking a walk at the Sacramento Zoo. It was a perfect day for that. About 56° outside, mostly sunny, hardly any people at the zoo. I really enjoyed it – AND my tumor pain […]
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Around 7:15 am I went over to the Effie Yeaw Nature Preserve again for a walk. When I first walked in, I saw a small group of deer collected behind the classroom facility across from the nature center. There was one of the 3-pointer bucks back there, rubbing his head against some of the scrub […]
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My article on how deer communicate was published online with the Lake County News newspaper: http://www.lakeconews.com/index.php/news/58932-tuleyome-tales-when-it-comes-to-black-tailed-deer-the-nose-knows
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I headed out to the Effie Yeaw Nature Preserve around 8:00 am. It was overcast, around 58°, and mist-raining when I got there, but the mist stopped shortly after I arrived. I was able to do a slow 3 hour walk but couldn’t cover as much ground as I normally could. Saw lots of different […]
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After giving the dog his breakfast, I headed over to the Effie Yeaw Nature Preserve for a walk. The air quality has been so bad that the zoo and other recreation places in Sacramento have all shut down for the day. The nature center at Effie Yeaw was also closed, but the trails were still […]
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I got up around 7:00 am, fed the dog his breakfast, and then went out to the Cosumnes River Preserve for a walk. There was still a lot of smoke in the air from the Camp Fire. The preserve still doesn’t have enough water in it, so it was something of a disappointment, but I […]
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