September 19, 2017
Evening walk on trails at Effie Yeaw Nature Center as part of California Naturalist class. Walked with 18 year old son AJ (who is also taking the class) for 40-45 minutes along trails first from EYNC building along Meadow Trail, and then back and down to American River. Immediately upon leaving the EYNC building, saw a doe with a VERY young and small fawn...neither deer spooked by human presence. Walked along trail, make tentative identification to a large growth of Armenian Blackberry, and a heritage Valley Oak. Then retraced our steps and proceeded to the bank of the American River at the northernmost corner of EYNC. Saw a male mallard accompanied by two females (they clearly were responding to his actions), and also took a photo of a growth of some kind of plant growing from the river within its natural confines (river is higher at this time of year as it has been in many years). Showed this picture to our class of 24 naturalists, and tentatively gave it the designation noted above. Would welcome any additional comments to assist in properly identifying all of these observations.
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