joerich's Journal

Here in the central valley northeast of Sacramento the seasons are changing. There is not much color here, but a few of the gum trees are showing color. But what I notice most are the birds. The small birds, such as some of the sparrows, bluebirds, etc. are forming into groups again. The Canadian Geese have also come back - they disappeared locally in the early summer, probably after having their young, and are now back on some of the ponds and fields around the 12 Bridges Preserve, Lincoln CA area.

There is a field at 38.840002, -121.271484 which I had yet to walk, so today I made a quick survey. It being October the fields were dry, but there is one small creek, probably spring fed. I walked in along the creek from the South Creek Wilson Park Trail Head area. There was a large variety of plants, some of which I captured in photographs and posted. I did see a Black Tailed Jackrabbit which I did not photograph, and I was able to photograph a Red-tailed Hawk, which took off from the creek area when I parked my bike. It was being harassed by another small hawk, maybe a Kestrel, given the size. Besides observing a few other birds and a few dragonflies, there was not much fauna about.

I did find the skull of an interesting small carnivore, maybe a Bobcat, and a long leg bone of probably a sheep.

Collected the remnants of a metalized balloon and disposed.