Deschutes National Forest
May 25, 1996
Clear, light wind, cold (light frost over night).
Plants
1. Wax Currant: Ribes cereum
2. Woolly-pod Milkvetch: Astragalus purshii
3. Bitterbrush: Purshia tridentata
4. Goosefoot Violet: Viola purpurea
5. Sand Lily: Leucorinum montanum (many in bloom)
6. Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora
7. Midget Phlox: Microsteris gracilis
8. Lavendar colored Arabis
Animals
1. Mourning Doves
2. Purple Finch
3. Red Crossbills
4. 4 Pinon Jays
5. Mountain Chickadees (building nest)
6. 4-6 Mule Deer
7. Elk sign (fresh dung)
8. Lewis Woodpecker
9. Pygmy Nuthatch
10. Robins
11. Brewers Blackbirds (many)
12. Ground Squirrel w/ rusty back & white eyering.
13. Raven
14. Rabbit with black tail last night.
Warm, light breeze in shelter of rock.
A kazillion geology students & tourists.
Plants
1. Larkspur: Delphinium andersonii???
2. Bitterroot: Lewisia rediviva (white)
3. Meadow Death-camas: Zygadenus venenosus?- not fully opened
4. Midget Phlox: Microsteris gracilis
5. Navarettia: Navarettia sp
6. Monkey Flower: Mimulus nanus
7. Mustard (yellow)
8. Borage (tiny, white flwrs)
9. Blazing Star: Mentzelia laevicaulis(yellow)
10. Dimersia Dimersia howellii Tiny flwr, 6-7petals, cream to slightly yellow, from dime size clumps of gray, thick leaves, covered by white, tomentose hairs.
11. Bitterbrush: Purshia tridentata
Animals
1. Horned Lark
2. 2 Ravens
3. Sage Thrashers singing
4. Green-tailed Towhees
5. Cliff Swallows?
6. lots of little lizards (to fast!!)
7. Small sparrow, drab, clear breast
Gravel road between Fort Rock, OR and Silver Lake, OR
Plants
1. Western Flag: Iris missouriensis
2. Common Camas: Camassia quamash
Animals
1. 5 Sandhill Cranes
2. Cinnamon Teals
3. Blue-winged Teal
4. Killdeer
5. Barn swallows
6. Willet
7. American Avocet
8. Red-winged Blackbirds
9. Female oriole
10. Mallards
Picture Rock Pass
(pond to SE and intersection of highway with Forest Service Rd 2901
Animals:
1. 2 Coots
2. Numerous butterflies- Nelson's Hairstreak & ? Checkerspot???????
Plants:
1. Blepharipappus: Blepharipappus scaber
2. Erigeron aphanactis?????
3. Woolly-pod Milk-vetch: Astragalus purshii
4. Nine-leaf Desert Parsley: Lomatium triternatum (sp?)
5. Western Groundsel: Senecio integerrimus
6. Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora
7. Long-leaf Phlox: Phlox longifolia
8. Threadstalk Milkvetch: Astragalus filipes
1. Mallards
2. Song Sparrow
3. Red-winged Blackbird
4. Shoveler
5. Marsh Hawk mobbed by blackbirds
6. Cinnamon Teals
7. Avocets
8. Red-headed Duck
9. Comorant (orange throat patch)
10. Cliff Swallow
11. Rough-winged Swallow
12. Ruddy Ducks
13. Caspian Tern
14. Yellow Warbler?
15. Sage Thrasher
16. Long-billed Curlew
17. Coot
18. White Pelican
19. Swan
20. Yellow-headed Blackbird
21. Ring-billed Gull
22. Egret
23. Bufflehead
24. Western Wood Peewee
25. Tree Swallow
26. Canada Goose
27. Barn Swallow
28. Great Horned Owl
29. Long-billed Marsh Wren
30. Brewer's Blackbird
31. Savannah Sparrow
32. Black-crowned Night Heron
33. Yellowthroat
34. Starling
35. Gadwell
36. Short-eared Owl (also baby in tree)
37. 2 Pintails
38. Brown-headed Cowbird
39. Western Kingbird
40. American Bittern
41. American Robin
42. Magpie (near Ana Reservoir)
43. Sandhill Crane