Today my friends and I headed to Rock Point, which was very cool to see since I didn’t get to go on our Rock Point lab first semester. We walked on a few paths, stopping to note tracks and bird noises, and also saw the water!
We identified birds mostly by their calls, as we had heard Chickadees and crows before.
We didn’t encounter any mammals (except for some really cute dogs), but we saw quite a few tracks!
We identified tracks mostly based on size, walking pattern, and paw shape. We saw a lot of canine tracks, but were able to rule out coyote because the toes didn’t point straight forward.
I enjoyed using iNaturalist for the first time. Recording bird sounds was a great way to record an observation without struggling to take a picture of a moving target.
