Schmitz Park, Seattle- 4/19/2012

I went to the park knowing that I needed a lot more species to add to my intauralist account, and that the park is set up to be as untouched as possible to mimic some of the characteristics of old growth forests, such as nurse logs, snags and old growth trees. I heard a lot of bird species even with the rain (there was heavy precipitation, mid 40's with total cloud cover when I went at 3 in the afternoon) including I think an owl, although I'm not sure.
I mostly cataloged species we hadn't gone over in class, as a lot of the plants in the park are at a slightly different climate and habitat than the places we have visited so far. I saw but didn't add to my account red flowering currant, Himalayan Blackberry, salal and other plants that we had already gone over in class.
These plants are harder for me to identify, but I believe they are all native species or at least naturalized species, as the park custodians try to remove invasive species when they crop up in the park.
There were a lot more mushroom species in the park than I would have thought for this time of year, and I tried to document all of the ones I could reach near the stream beds and on dead trees.

Posted on 20 de abril de 2012, 12:49 AM by meganwaskom