Middle Fork Lytle Creek
My personal playground. Over the last few years I have done almost weekly hikes through this beautiful creek. The location I enjoy to observe wildlife is about a 1.15 Km hike from the middle fork parking lot. The diversity is impressive and to this day my cameras keep catching new species in the area. There are 23 species of animals that I have 100% confidence in their identification, but I am aware of at least 4 species of birds that I have not been able to capture on camera to identify, I have not recorded any amphibians although I know that their are a few in the area, and there are a multitude of insects in the area that I haven’t even begun to record. Below is a list of the confirmed species that I have verified in this little valley surrounded by the mountains and this ice cold creek that is lined by boulders, oak, alder and pine trees.
A huge thank you to Robin Ikeda, James desLauriers and Sarah Chamberlin for pointing me in the right direction with determining what animals I am looking at and for helping me see deeper into what I’m looking at and not just seeing what I want to see.
- Insects
- Mammals
- Reptiles
References used through put the project
Peterson, Roger T. Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Western North America. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin Company, 2010.
Reis, Fiona A. A Field Guide to Mammals of North America North of Mexico. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006.
Stebbins, Robert C. A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians. 3rd ed., Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003.
Wikipedia