Fawn Lily

Arrows to fawn lily.

Fawn lily still thriving!

Birds

Nice to have the white-crowned sparrow back.

These are all in my garden at home.

Early morning singing.  

Chocolate Lily in Nursery Patch

Great that this chocolate lily that I transplanted last year has survived.

 

Chocolate Fritillaria Lily Plants

Sue, Mindy and I found a dozen chocolate lily plants by Marvin Rd fence.

This one even has a bud!! 

I marked them with moss sticks.

Yellow Violets

There are about a dozen yellow violet plants close to the trail.

At #7 on the map. 

 

Chocolate Lily Sprouts

So happy to see these chocolate lily sprouting!!

White violets on left, lily on right of sign at entrance to Preserve. 

Fawn Lily Sprouts

This one is by the corral behind the tree.

This one is in the patch by Marvin Road. 

White Violets

I moved another clump of white violets to the left side entrance at Schmitz.

 

Moving More Shooting Stars

These were in the gravel.

I moved them up a ways by the corner.

Shrubs-Native-Red Huckleberry

 

Wild red huckleberry.

Shooting Stars

I moved a bunch more shooting stars to my sample nursery.

 

White Violets

I added some white violets next to my snowdrops in my sample garden.

I hope the bunnies don't eat these.

 

Shooting Star Starts

I think these are shooting stars in the plot by Schmitz entrance. 

 

First Camus Sighting

These are next to the fence in the gravel.

I will watch for buds. 

 

Shooting Star Babies

 

I found a bunch of baby shooting star plants today.

Dodecatheon jeffreyi is a species of flowering plant in the primrose family known by the common names Sierra shooting star, Jeffrey’s shooting star, and tall mountain shooting star. This wildflower is native to western North America from California to Alaska to Montana, where it grows in mountain meadows and streambanks. This is a thick-rooted perennial with long, slightly wrinkled leaves around the base. It erects slim, tall, hairy stems which are dark in color and are topped with inflorescences of 3 to 18 showy flowers. Each flower nods with its mouth pointed to the ground when new, and becomes more erect with age. It has four or five reflexed sepals in shades of pink, lavender, or white which lie back against the body of the flower. Each sepal base has a blotch of bright yellow. From the corolla mouth protrude large dark anthers surrounding a threadlike stigma. The flowers of this species were considered good luck by the Nlaka’pamux people, who used them as amulets and love charms.

Flower Family: Primrose

Scientific Name: Dodecatheon jeffreyi

Usual Color: Red-pink

The specific epithet jeffreyi is in honor of John Jeffrey.

John Jeffrey (14 November 1826 – 1854) was a Scottish botanist and plant-hunter active in the United States.

Jeffrey was born in Forneth, Parish of Clunie, west of Blairgowrie and Rattray in east Perthshire. While working as a gardener for Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Garden, he was appointed by a Scottish group known as the Oregon Association (established 1849) to travel to North America. There he would collect seeds and continue the efforts of botanist David Douglas (1799–1834).

Jeffrey arrived at Hudson Bay in August 1850 and travelled more than 1,200 miles (1,900 km) overland to reach the Columbia River. He then spent the next four years exploring Washington, Oregon, and California, sending his specimens back to Scotland. In 1854 he disappeared while travelling from San Diego across the Colorado Desert. Despite attempts to find him, he was never seen again.

At the time, Jeffrey was criticized for poor results but his discoveries, particularly of conifers, were significant. The Jeffrey Pine (Pinus jeffreyi), which he discovered near California's Mount Shasta in 1852, and the flowering plant Dodecatheon jeffreyi were named in his honor.

Spotted Towhee in my Garden

Heard and then saw a spotted towhee today. 

This is a male calling for his mate.

They mate for life. 

Snowdrops on Bench Side of Trail

These ae along the path next to the St. John's Wort.

Two clumps to the right of the path.

This clump is off the path towards the street. 

All the Snowdrop Bunches

This is the big patch of doubles on the left of the blue house.

Two more scattered patches are down the trail past the large clump. 

The largest clump.

Many scattered in this area down the path past the big clump.

A big clump and a bunch of scattered clumps to the left of the house.

These two clumps are on the right side of the blue house.

The clump in the top picture were buried under leaves and bark.

I am glad I finally found both clumps.

These are between the trees, last bunch to bloom.

Black-tailed fawn with “hair loss syndrome” caused by the exotic lice Damalinia (Cervicola) sp.

Hair loss syndrome (HLS) of black-tailed deer is caused by a heavy infestation of Eurasian lice first reported in Western Washington in 1995.

When black-tailed deer become infested, they tend to develop a hypersensitivity (severe allergic) reaction, which causes skin irritation and excessive grooming by the deer. Eventually, this excessive grooming leads to loss of the guard hairs, leaving yellow or white patches along the sides.

Infestations are heaviest during late winter and early spring. The geographical distribution of HLS has expanded steadily since its first appearance and now affects black-tailed deer throughout their range in Western Washington and western Oregon. 

The exotic lice species described above does not affect humans or domestic animals.