by Marisela De Santa Anna | Sep 30, 2019 | Blog
September 23, 10 am.First day of fall and it is perfect out. The clear blue sky with that crispness in the air says fall is here. I am noticing an increase in the sparrows, the crowned sparrows as they are called, with their songs of “oh dear me” and the...
by Marisela De Santa Anna | Sep 23, 2019 | Blog
September 18, 9 am.Walking out along Davis Creek, the scent of fall is in the air. I admire the vegetation that is growing all around me, there are grasses of different shades of green, wild roses, some very tall mugwort, and a charming round bush with white...
by Marisela De Santa Anna | Sep 16, 2019 | Blog
September 14, 9 am.This week I am focusing on the Common Gray fox, Urocyon cinereoargenteus. We were able to capture one on our video cam recorder and I had the good luck of having a young one visit our land and got one photo of it with my phone. The other photos are...
by Marisela De Santa Anna | Sep 9, 2019 | Blog
September 4, 9:30 am It is a clear warm morning and I am walking along Davis Creek, listening for any unusual sounds, keeping my eyes open, looking all around for mammals that may be out this morning. The birds are active in the riparian areas, taking baths and...
by Marisela De Santa Anna | Sep 3, 2019 | Blog
September 1, 9:00 am.The days are getting shorter, each day the sun is coming up a little later and setting a little earlier. The hot afternoons make me forget the cool crispness of the mornings yet every morning, as I take my morning hike up the mountain, it is...
by Marisela De Santa Anna | Aug 26, 2019 | Blog
August 28th 10 am. This week I am going to talk about the American Beaver, Castor canadensis, one of my favorite mammals.When researching the history of beavers in this area I found that there are no written records of beavers living in the Little Lake Valley. This...
