Homestead Summary 10/30/14

                         Weather: around 35 degrees, clear blue sky, thicket, sunny, snow on the ground

                                                     

Plants:

       Goats Beard (Aruncus diolicus)

      Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)

   Large Leaf Avens (Geum macrophyllum)

         Sitka Spruce (Picea sitchensis)

         Rockweed (Fucus distichus)

Cow Parsnip (Heracleum maximum)

     Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium)

    Lady Fern (athyrium filix-femina)

     Sitka Mountain Ash (Sorbus sitchensis)

 Sitka Alder (Alnus viridis)

Willow (Salix spp)

Animlas:

 red squirrel Tamiasciurus hudsonicus

acorn barnacle Balanus glandula

northern sea nettle jellyfish Chrysaora melanaster

pacific blue mussel Mytilus edulis

sitka periwinkle Littorina sitkana

northern sea lion Eumetopias jubatus

lion's mane jellyfish Cyanea capllata

bald eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus

Other: 

Homestead Trail is where we saw the most eagles and had the most animals we have seen in all of the trails.