Midday isn’t the best time to bird the Jewel Lake area of Tilden Park but that’s when I went today. There was a fair amount of bird song and most id was by sound. Unfortunately there were many sounds beyond my knowledge to name. I did manage to comfortably identify 12 birds. Tilden Park -Jewel Lake Bird List 9/15/14 I didn’t include Wilson’s Warbler which flew by quickly so I didn’t get a clear look and I was not completely confident I heard a Nuttall’s Woodpecker but both of them have been seen in the area recently T
Field Crescent and Cabbage White Butterflies were flying about. A Dragonfly landed near on tall spiked leaves. A Crawfish and Pond Slider Turtles (an introduced species) crawled along the edge of drought shrunken Jewel Lake. Many of the Western Sword Ferns were showing attractive geometric patterns of sori on the bottom of their leaves. White Snowberries contrasted with dark woodland areas.
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