La Honda Creek Open Space Preserve

Made my first visit today to Lower La Honda Creek Open Space Preserve, near the hamlet of La Honda. There with other iNaturalist addicts @dpom and @leslie_flint , as well as @tui and Doug. We saw the desired Vesper Sparrow, but so much more - a beautiful stand of Golden-eye Lichen, a Coyote, and an active Northern Harrier.

We then went to the eastern end of Gazos Creek Road, where we failed to find the recently reported American Dipper. We did, however, explore the rich lichen and fungi in the area. At one point, some hikers emerged from a previously unnoticed and unknown (to us) trail, and saw how we were looking at the lichens. They knew their lichens! AND, best of all, they recommended that we use iNaturalist! LOL! It was as if we had been transported into a future parallel universe, in which everyone cared about nature and everyone used iNat!

Posted on January 22, 2018 06:06 AM by gyrrlfalcon