BCCER Eco-Calendar

March

In March the wildflowers begin to become spectacular. Some you may find include:

Pacific Hound's-tongue, Fulvous Popcorn-flower, Milkmaids, Bicolored Lupine, Sky Lupine, Variable-leaved Nemophila, Baby-blue-eyes, Common Miner's Lettuce, Western Buttercup, California Saxifrage, Pink Plectritus, Long-tubed Iris, Yellow Star-tulip, Bluedicks, Sierra Fawn-lily, Checkered Fritillary, Scarlet Fritillary

Several shrubs are flowering:

Skunkbrush, White-leaved Manzanita, Western Redbud, Sierra Gooseberry, Buckbrush, Deerbrush, Oso-berry

Tiny red leaves are beginning to show on the Poison oak.

The wild turkeys are now in mixed flocks with the gobblers all puffed up to impress the hens and each other. Deer numbers are declining as the migrants head for higher country. Flocks of snow geese, tundra swans, and sandhill cranes regularly pass overhead in their northern migration.