Travels of a Certified California Naturalist
I got up a little before 6 o’clock this morning and headed out to the Effie Yeaw Nature Preserve for a walk by myself. I was trying to beat the rain – and was also on the lookout for slime molds. I did beat the rain (it didn’t show up until around 3:00 pm), but […]
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I got up around 6:00 this morning, planning on going out on a wildflower tour with my coworker Nate and volunteer Roxanne. Nate sent me an email, however, saying that his folks were in town and when they heard what he was doing today, they wanted to go with him – so there went Roxanne’s […]
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Date: Monday, February 18, 2019 Time: 7:30 am to 11:30 am Temperature: 31° to 53° Weather: Sunny, clear, breezy, cool Location: Effie Yeaw Nature Center, 2850 San Lorenzo Way, Carmichael, CA 95608 Lat/Log: 38.6174656, -121.3115716 Narrative: This walk was an impromptu walk for the Tuleyome CalNat course which I led. We had 16 people, along with […]
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I had decided to just rest up over this weekend, but I couldn’t resist heading out to the Cosumnes River Preserve in the early morning. The preserve had posted that 90% of their wetland areas had water in them, so I wanted to see what it was like out there. Uh. If what I saw […]
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I went on a photo walk with my coworker, Nate, and one of Tuleyome’s donors/volunteers, Sami, to Lake Solano Park this morning. The weather was extraordinarily lovely today. It was in the 50’s at the park and got up to about 75º by the late afternoon. There was slight breeze and the sky was filled […]
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I headed out with the dog to the William Land Park for a short walk. And I mean short. We were only out there for about 90-minutes. It was 73º already when we left the house at 5:30 am! and 80º when we got back home. On our way to the park, I came across […]
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I headed over to the Effie Yeaw Nature Preserve again for a walk. The weather was lovely all morning, so the walk was a pleasant one. The only thing that kind of messed up my morning was that I was lost in thought while I was driving to the preserve and overshot it by about […]
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I just HAD to go see how mama Great Horned Owl was doing at the American River Bend Park, so I got up around 6:30 am and headed over there, hoping to beat the incoming rain. It was about 59º and totally overcast, but no drizzles while I was out. When I got to the […]
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It’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. I’m feeling better; just really fatigued. I slept soundly last night and got up with the dog a little before 6:00 am. By about 7:00 am I headed over to the Cosumnes River Preserve for a walk. It was chilly and super foggy in the morning hours, and only got […]
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Up at 5:30 again. I hate that I have to get up so early on the weekends just so I can get outside when it’s still cool, but… whatcha gonna do? I went over to the River Bend Park, but rather than going to the area where I usually walk, I crossed the bridge and […]
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I got up around 5:30 and headed over to the Effie Yeaw Nature Preserve. The sun was just coming up as I got there. When I first started walking the trail, I could hear Wild Turkeys in the trees around me, so I looked for them. They were waaaaaaaaay the heck up in the trees, […]
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I was out the door with Sergeant Margie by about 4:00 am, and drove out to the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge by way of the gas station and Jack’s. I got to the refuge just as the sun was coming up, and as I got out of the car Great Blue Herons lurched out from […]
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