joaoganemabramo's Journal

1- Coast Live Oak

2-Toyon

3- French Broom

4-Redwood

5-Red-flowering Currant

1-Honey bee and flowering plants seen at the fire trail on the Panoramic Hill near to the part of the trail where there is some houses. I've been in this trail a few times and those bees are always in this same flower plant.

2-The Sessile bernacles and the Starbust anemone- In this case the Starbust serve as superficie for the growing of these bernacles found at the Pillar point in Half-moon bay.

3- Turkey-tail and Coast Live Oak dead trunk found at the UC Berkeley campus near to the McCone hall.

Rosemary- Found some Rosemary plants at the top of the trail, it seems like someone could have planted them there because of their Mediterranean characteristics, but they grow easy and like sun. It looked adapted to that place and the soil wasn't the driest comparing to another places of the chaparral.

Eucalyptus- It looked pretty adapted to the dryness of this environment. I could recognize a few of them on this part of trail where there is kind of a open forest with bigger individuals composted by these Eucalyptus trees.

Toyon- I saw this plant on the Strawberry Canyon trail, so I could recognize them here. Comparing to the one I've seen on the Evergreen Forest it looked more compacted and smaller more like a shrub, maybe because of the less water and dryer soil factor, but definitely a larger number of individuals.

Common Snowberry- It's a berry that is a food source in the winter and more adapted to moist environments, maybe because of that it could be found on a Evergreen forest which has a more temperate climate with less extremely variations between summer and winter.

Thimbleberry- It is commonly associated to ecological succession due to forest clearings, near to roadsides and forest fires. It was found near to the trail, it seems to be well adapted to a moist environment.

Toyon- Even though this plant is found on drought environments, I've seen this tree on the Strawberry Canyon fire Trail near to the road on a really dry soil and on a sunny spot, maybe because of its localization this tree could grow. It looks like it was growing well with a tall tree and well adapted to the Evergreen forest.

Redwood- Found near to the trail with a good number of individuals, it is located up to the creek on the higher part of the trail on the valley. Known as a specie that requires a moisture environment and also requires precipitation. The rains in winter helps the ocasional drought and also the fog on the summer. It is also a Evergreen tree so it makes sense that they are well adapted to this place.

Red-flowering Currant- It could be found on a dry or moist environment, it was found near to the trail on a moist space, the plant was expose on a partly shade environment and it looked partially adapted to the environment due to its size it wasn't really tall.

Fungi- Witch's Hat (Hygrocybe conica) I've seen the fungi at Strawberry Canyon trail near to the creek.

Amphibians- California Slender Salamander (Batrachoseps attenuatus) I've seen the Salamander in front of McCone Hall at UC campus.

Plant-Thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus) I found this plant during the fieldtrip at the Strawberry Canyon trail.

Bird- Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) I've seen this bird at the fire trail in Oakland.

Other Bird- Humming Bird seen at UC Berkeley Campus

Insects-Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)Also seen at the fire trail.