As I have mentioned earlier, I will monitor the taxon observed in Covington to see if new discoveries are submitted that are not included in the original project life list. True to my word, I would like to report that @leiapico has “discovered” a new bird species in Covington ( Bucephala albeola ), representing the first non-plant discovery for this project.

I also visited Covington on Saturday and made some new discoveries too.

Athyrium filix-femina
Brassica rapa
Dicentera formosa
Equisetum arvense
Erodium cicutarium
Lunaria annua
Pteridium aquilinum
Rubus spectabilis
Rumex acetosella

There are still many, many more species that can be added so keep the discoveries coming!

I have kicked off this project by contributing some of its first discoveries. I visited Jenkins Creek Park, which includes portions of the historic Meridian prairie, part of a unique type of habitat in western Washington that is especially rare in King county. I didn’t observe any prairie species, but I did find signs of past anthropogenic fire from a big leaf maple observation with a scorched bole. The list of newly ‘discovered’ species are:

Acer macrophyllum
Berberis aquifolium
Carex obnupta
Lamium purpureum
Oemleria cerasiformis
Piceae sitchensis
Polypodium glycyrrhiza
Polystichum munitum
Pseudotsuga menziesii
Stellaria media
Tsuga heterophylla

There are many more species to be discovered, this area is largely undocumented in the iNaturalist database, so let’s see how many more we can find!