Sunday, March 27, 2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Goin' on a critter hunt
After days of pouring rain, we headed out to Foothill Park to see what critters we could find. We had a lucky break in the weather and had fun exploring under very damp logs. First we found a fast moving centipede, then a curled up millipede, next three slender salamanders, a worm, and finally a California Newt. On the trail back Kelton spotted a bunny. We also enjoyed seeing the Giant Trillium flowers.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Saturday, March 05, 2011
Woodrat houses
We discovered a whole village of woodrat houses on our hike today. I did some research after Kelton found some scat on an oak tree branch at the top of the trail last week. I concluded that it looked like woodrat scat. This week when we did the same hike we found 7 or 8 of these large woodrat houses with fresh signs. I don't know how we missed them last time! The little rodents were probably sleeping in their houses as they are nocturnal. Kelton wonders if they ate the Cherrios Brennan dumped out in the vicinity last time?