May 25, 2012 Union Bay Natural Area

Today I walked around the Union Bay Natural Area looking for wildflowers. It was around 2:00pm and the weather was warm but cloudy. The UBNA is composed of many grassy fields as well as a few lightly forested areas, and it meets up with Lake Washington. Along my walk I saw that there were many small flowers blooming in the grass, some of those being White Clover, Red Clover, and Black Medick. I also noticed tiny forget-me-nots and even aquatic forget-me-nots. Inside a stand of trees there were tall buttercups growing along the path, all in bloom with shiny yellow flowers. There were three beautiful blue lupines growing near the beginning of the UBNA, but I did not see anymore in the rest of it. As I was leaving across an open feild, a group of five Barn Swallows began circling me and coming so close that I had to be careful not to step on them. They only stopped circling and swooping me when I left their field. Perhaps they had a nest nearby and were afraid I would harm it.

Oregon Oak, Guercus garryana
Water Forget-me-not, Myosotis scorpiodes
Black Poplar, Populus nigra
Turkey-Tail, Trametes versicolor
Water lillies, Order Nymphaeales
Lupines, Genus Lupinus
Forget-me-not, Genus Myosotis
Buttercups, Genus Ranunculus
Barn Swallow, Hirundo rustica
Red Clover, Trifolium pratense
Black Medick, Medicago luplina
False Dandelion, Hypochaeris radicata
Small Camas, Camassia quamash

Julkaistu kesäkuu 1, 2012 03:16 AP. käyttäjältä andymj