Natural History Wanderings

Submittted by -Tom Hilton

Wind Wolves, March 12-13: as last week’s report suggested, there’s no spectacular show at this point (a few nice swatches of goldfields on the mountainsides, but that’s about it).  There are plenty of wildflowers if you look for them, though.  Along the spring wildflower trail there were a fair number of fiddlenecks, popcorn flower, and blue dicks; up the San Emigdio Canyon Trail, I saw goldfields, phacelia, lupines, birdseye gilia, bladderpod, and owl’s clover.  Photos here: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=wind%20wolves&w=54259492%40N00