Rattlesnake skin found on chert outcrop near McCann Homestead.
Is the name 'Trifolium Microcephalum correct...?
it was a small white flower with small leaves and a medium length stem.
Western Pond Turtles basking in the middle of Turtle Pond.
Our class found several baby mice under a board by Turtle Pond.
This little one scurried away before we could get a better look at it...
Saw dozens of these guys swimming in Turtle Pond and sending ripples out.
Saw this deer on the trail across from work.
Oddly, it didn't run away from me, but slowly walked across the paved trail and into the grass.
It seemed shaky/unsteady and its lower back was curled over while it walked, as if it was constipated (for lack of better description).
Neck looked odd--bones seemed visible, as though it was either starving or dehydrated.
I was worried that it was sick/abandoned, so I tried to follow it, but the oat grass (curse you invasive annual grasses!) was so tall that I couldn't spot it.
Hope it's okay...
The joys of field work: Our BIO 85.2 class put in 2 grueling hours of setting 80 traps along the border of the woodlands (up on the northern slopes behind Bechtel House.
The next morning, we were rewarded with a single nursing deer mouse out of 80 traps set!
Per Prof. Woodruff, you can tell it was "maniculatus" because of its bicolored tail. Could tell it was nursing due to extended nipples.
By dried creek west of Bechtel house.
Lots of these little guys hopping around the rocky creek bed.
I'm guessing these are Pacific and not Mountain based on the webbing these have (?).
Saw several of these budding grass/flower heads (?) in the grassland off-road, west of Bechtel House.
Green phase of poison oak trailing up the road/creek near Bechtel House...boy was it plentiful!
Saw this fellow slowly gobbling up a little baby rodent, by a dried-up creek a bit west from Bechtel House.
It swam a bit in the water before settling on the rocks and moving the rodent down...
Unfortunately, I can't tell whether it's an aquatic or terrestrial garter snake.
