Observaciones de prd_fishguy

Many fruiting bodies observed around area

Multiple flowers noted in area

Seen at pull outs along road. Likely from household yard deposits.

Fluttering around the deck

Found mixed with bog cranberry

Many found within 2 meters

This entire muskeg complex here has thousands of these flowers. They are the dominant flower currently

Found in spongy, saturated, mossy substrate about 15m from a roadway

Found alongside bog Laurel, shooting star, Labrador tea, and equisitum

Found alongside terrestrial bog Laurel within 1m

My guess is this is an Oregon Cascade grape found growing along this entire part of the trail.

Found flying and crawling up the walls of the Forest Service office.

We were thinking a spotted towhee. It was seen scolding an owl who had swooped down directly in front of us all to nab a warbler out of the air.

Male observed swimming upstream middle of river channel, perhaps looking for prospective partner.

Found swarming along the ground. Likely 100k beetles!

Here are two bufflehead separated from another dozen or so bufflehead in a small pond near a disc golf course off Salmon Creek.

About a 25sqft patch of these sporadically spread on mossy substrate.

Looks like a lingonberry; it is a tasty sweet/tart fruit