Journal 7

Ebey's Landing and Skagit River Delta
Saturday November 8th
Weather- Clear Skies, even warm at times, kinda windy though

On Saturday November 8th, at 730 am, that was early, we went to Whidbey Island so we could go to Ebey's Landing there. We were asked if any of us had ever been to Whidbey Island. I didn't raise my hand, because I don't remember a lot about my teenage years. So, we arrived at Ebey's Landing, and I did recognize the homestead there. As a Boy Scout when I was younger, many years ago, we loved to camp at Fort Casey, and we learned that Fort Ebey was near there, so we went there one year, and were sorely disappointed. I think we found Ebey's landing, not the fort.
Bird watching is a very interesting hobby. I personally have never been a bird watcher, yet I have always loved birds. Now that I am in a class that includes bird watching, I may be able to get a better appreciation for it. My greatest memory from this trip was seeing the Virginia Rail bird at The Skagit River Delta, and I am saddened that I wasn't able to get a picture of it.

Taking pictures of anything is very new to me, and I have heard that getting good ones of birds is very challenging in general. So here are some sketches:

  

These sketches are horrible, but again I meant well. The Virginia Rail I saw didn't look anything like the picture above, but it was easier to sketch. Here is a good picture of one:

This looks a lot like what I saw, I think I was looking head on, or at its back though!!

 

 

Journal 6

Thursday November 6, 2014
Ronald Bog Park   3pm
Weather- Mostly Cloudy and Very Windy


When I arrived at Ronald Bog Park today, I was sure after the crappy weather we have been having there would be a lot of physical changes there. I was not mistaken. Last week there were some trees in the bog itself, and this week it seemed like more were. There were also trees that instead of being up in the air like they have been, were actually bent down towards the ground, there were cracks in the branches to show how mush stress the wood actually took. As well as the trees being misplaced, there were a lot of large branches all over the place, and a lot of leaves. The geese were there, and the ducks from last week were grazing with them, I want to say one male and one female mallard, one was a tan kind of color, and the other had a green neck. There were also a lot more mushrooms today, maybe with the wet and the moss everywhere, mushrooms grow easily there.

This picture shows the 2 ducks among the geese. They are on the bottom, in the middle of screen.

These are the series of pictures I took of a tree, and then the mushrooms growing in the moss. I thought it was a neat series.









Here are some that show the fungi I have seen today.

This one shows some cool looking fungus, kind of looks like a mushroom on the log.

 This is another kind of fungus, I have never seen this kind before.

 This one looked like a yellow berry or bean.

And, this one looked like gel or slime









And, I finally found an invertebrate.

These look like potato bugs, or pill bugs. With all of the crappy weather as of late, there were actually logs to turn over. It looked like a family of them.








For part 2
This was very hard

Several small hats
lots of color
varying in shape
and color

Loud and large
black and white
group of creatures
 sounding like a car horn

Miniature armadillo shaped
wood dwelling creature
gray with an oval back
fast little things




This was definitely difficult for me, I meant well!!