c_michael_hogan's Journal

I am emerging from an intensive Northern California lichen idenification frenzy, and am now taking advantage of the prolific fungi production from the robust rains of the last month. Yesterday was a localized pinnacle of fungi sightings at Sugarloaf Ridge. I had the fortune of being in a small group hike, on which the Park Manager accompanied with a scientific collection permit. I did no collecting, but two other scientists were helpful in plucking certain specimens that i found, and even serving as hand models for me. I catalogued about thirty of the specimens that i had some luck in identifying, and posted these to iNaturalist, a sample of which are appended to this journal entry.

Just finished a trip to the marvelous Sonoran Desert. This exact time is a superb time to see not only cacti, but a gamut of other flowering plants, in bloom. I am still adding to the observations, but here is a partial list of the plant taxa, all with photos:

http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/c_michael_hogan?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=Sonoran&search_on=&quality_grade=any&geoprivacy=&place_id=&swlat=&swlng=&nelat=&nelng=&taxon_name=&taxon_id=&day=&month=&year=&order_by=observations.id&order=desc&rank=&hrank=&lrank=&site=&tdate=&d1=&d2=&filters_open=true&view=map

While emphasizing plants on this trip, i have images of a few birds and reptiles. I have to confess that i also squeezed in some spring training baseball and a little golf, besides the desert hiking.