17 January 10
Two Long Walks
I’ve signed up to do the Big Green Year again, and finally decided on the walking one rather than bike. But for one reason or another we haven’t gone on many long walks in 2010, and I hadn’t started keeping even a decent yard list.
Yesterday we walked west along the levee and Riparian Reserve trails out to the UC Davis airport, about 2.5 miles from home. Species totalled: 44, including a pair of common moorhens. Then, today, we walked in to campus to get the paper, picked up nine more species, and were rewarded with a couple of river otters in the creek. I didn’t sketch them but hope to have another chance.
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