Observations by jackiebri24

This beetle was shiny and black and rummaging around the leaves. Its body was segmented into a small head, slightly bigger thorax and a large abdomen. Its long antennea moved around as if feeling for something.

I saw this chickadee on top of a Douglas Fir tree. The top of its head was black, it had a white face, and another black belt seperating its head and body. The body was a dark reddish brown color while the wings were greyish with white streaks. A small round bird that hopped around a lot.

I found this bird closer to the outskirts of the park surprisingly. It was somewhat large and had a distinctive streaked brown and black back. The chest and underside is tan wtih black spots. It's head is greyish with a red streak near its long grey beak.

I saw a female mallard and her young in a pond in Ravenna. A male was not around. She had a brown body and with darker streaks going down the entire back. She had brown at the top her head and a brown streak that crossed her small black eye. This water bird stayed in the pond the entire time. Her beak was orange with a darker spot on it. Her young were smaller, fluffier and were mostly yellow with black stripes.

This medium sized large bird is a dark blue black color all over its body, legs and beak. It has a somewhat slender body and walks around the forest floor quite often. I also observed it flying over me and its tail shape is rectangular. It's beak is somewhat triangular and protrudes from its head, making it look more elongated.

I observed this chickadee from afar through my binoculars. It had a black head, and an alternating white and then black stripe underneath that. It is a very round bird with a tail that sticks out after that. The beak is very triangular, tiny and somewhat pointy. It has a mostly white underside with some hints of tan colors near the wings. It was foraging around a western hemlock tree with lots of other chickadees around it.

This small bird had a thin, somewhat hooked beak that pointed downwards. I saw it walking vertically up a tree. The bird had a white underside and a greyish brown back with white spots and lighter brown markings. Its tail was long and laid flat on the tree as the bird walked up the tree.

This small bird flittered back and forth quickly around the top of a douglas fir tree. It was a shiny bird, mostly a bright green with a red patch on its throat. It had a black streak on its wing and white on the chest, underside and around its black eye. It's beak was also pointy and thin.

This bird has a distinctive red chest and a grey back and wings with a black head. I heard it heard it calling in what sounds like a repetitive "cheerio, cheerio, cheerio" song. It is a medium sized bird with a yellow beak. I encountered it hopping around a couple yards ahead of me in vegetation, pecking at the ground, likely foraging.

Since this owl was hiding in a forested area, it was a little hard to see. This large, oval shaped bird had brown and white streaks on its wings and an overall brown color all around. The head was very circular and its features (eyes and beak) concentrated in a circle on its head. Its head did not come to a point like other birds. Its face is somewhat heart shaped and mostly white with large round black eyes on the front of its head, not the sides of the head.

This plant is low to the ground and the leaflets grow in an alternate pattern. They are long toothed with a point at the end and about 3 or 5 central veins. The leaves are a duller green color and each stem produces more than 9 leaflet each that grow opposite each other on the same axis. The branches are stiff and a reddish color.

This plant is a skinny tree with thin, flexible twigs. The bark is a light brown color. The leaves have about 6 or 7 lobes that end in a point. Most of the leaves are droopy and resemble little hats. The veins are very visible on the underside of the leaf as they protrude and are a lighter green color than the leaf itself.

This shrub, resembles a bush as it is round and contained instead of sprawling. The leaves are small and soft. They have a little indent from the node where the leaf meets the stem which makes it resemble a heart. The leaves are bluntly toothed and ends at a point but is mostly oval shaped. There are also many veins extending from the central vein to the pointy lobes on the perimeter of the leaves.

This dense bush of thick thorny stems took up an entire area near the trail. The stems are a greyish brown color and grow taller than my head. The leaves are a dark green on top and a paler green underneath. The leaves are pretty small and toothed all around. Some are slightly heart shaped and end at a point. They appear to grow in clusters of five leaves, spread out in a star shape.

This large shrub takes up a considerable amount of area near the trail. The plant has large leaves with five main points. The leaves are very soft to the touch. They have visible veins from the center to each of the five lobes. The stems are a light green while the leaves are a darker green

Spindly and low to the ground, this plant had thorny stems and leaves with an alternate pattern. Each leaf had either five or seven leaflets. The flowers were wide open, a light pink color which faded into white in the middle and a yellow center where all the pollen was visible. The leaves were small and toothed and slightly folded down the middle.

At the time of the observation the plant seems to be a small tree with thin dark brown twigs. The large leaves are arranged in an opposite pattern. They have a deep central vein at which point some of the leaves fold slightly, lengthwise. They are finely toothed and shaped like a narrow oval. Each leaf consists of about six leaflets.

This plant had not flowered so all I observed were the leaves. The leaves were soft and thin to the touch. Each leaf was lobed and had one deep central vein. It was slightly arrow shaped and resembled an alder tree leaf in that sense. They were also a dull green color.

I saw this dragonfly near the stream in Ravenna Park. It was flying around and its whole body was gleaming. It was hard to tell what color it was exactly but it seemed to be a light blueish color. It's wings stayed open when it landed and the wings were clear and also glittery.

This plant had leaf compounds of 5-9 leaflets growing in an opposite pattern. Many of the leaflets were lobed, but not all of them. Some were more deeply lobed than others. White berries were beginning to grow on the ends of leaflets and they grew in clusters. The leaflets are small, delicate and soft to the touch.