Site Report: Ventana Wilderness
Hiking through the California grasslands
Ladybugs
Pine Valley Creek
Pine Valley Creek
Camping spot in the Ventana Wilderness
Pine Valley Trail
Flower
Brown Tarantula (Aphonopelma smithii)
Blow Fly (blowfly ssp)
Blow Fly (blowfly ssp)
Banded Bee Fly (Villa ssp)
Blainville's Horned Lizard
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Hiking through the California grasslands
Ladybugs
Pine Valley Creek
Pine Valley Creek
Camping spot in the Ventana Wilderness
Pine Valley Trail
Flower
Brown Tarantula (Aphonopelma smithii)
Blow Fly (blowfly ssp)
Blow Fly (blowfly ssp)
Banded Bee Fly (Villa ssp)
Blainville's Horned Lizard
Rugged hilly terrain containing grassland, beach, scrub, redwood forest, oak forest, and chaparral.
Visits
No visit reports available.Species Seen
Kingdom: Animals (31 records)
Phylum: Arthropods
(3 records)
Class: Arachnids
(1 record)
- Order: Spiders
(1 record)
- Family: Tarantulas
- Brown Tarantula (Aphonopelma smithii)
Class: Insects
(2 records)
- Order: Flies
(2 records)
- Family: Bee Flies
- Banded Bee Fly (Villa sp)
- Family: Blow Flies
- Blow Fly (blowfly sp)
Phylum: Chordates
(28 records)
Class: Birds
(23 records)
- Order: Doves and Pigeons
(1 record)
- Family: Pigeons and Doves
- Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura)
- Order: Hummingbirds and Swifts
(2 records)
- Family: Hummingbirds
- Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna)
- Family: Swifts
- White-throated Swift (Aeronautes saxatalis)
- Order: Owls And Nightjars
(3 records)
- Family: Nighthawks and Nightjars
- Common Poorwill (Phalaenoptilus nuttallii)
- Family: Typical Owls
- Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus)
- Long-eared Owl (Asio otus)
- Order: Perching Birds
(13 records)
- Family: Chickadees and Titmice
- Chestnut-backed Chickadee (Poecile rufescens)
- Oak Titmouse (Baeolophus inornatus)
- Family: Dippers
- American Dipper (Cinclus mexicanus)
- Family: Jays and Crows
- Steller's Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri)
- California Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma californica)
- Family: Nuthatches
- White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis)
- Family: Old World Buntings
- Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis)
- Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus)
- Family: Old World Warblers and Gnatcatchers
- Wrentit (Chamaea fasciata)
- Family: Swallows
- Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor)
- Family: Thrushes and Allies
- Western Bluebird (Sialia mexicana)
- Family: Tyrant Flycatchers
- Black Phoebe (Sayornis nigricans)
- Family: Wrens
- Canyon Wren (Catherpes mexicanus)
- Order: Turkey-like birds
(1 record)
- Family: New World Quail
- California Quail (Callipepla californica)
- Order: Vultures
(1 record)
- Family: New World Vultures
- Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura)
- Order: Woodpeckers, Barbets, Toucans, and Honeyguides
(2 records)
- Family: Piculets and Woodpeckers
- Acorn Woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus)
- Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus)
Class: Mammals
(1 record)
- Order: Rodents
(1 record)
- Family: Squirrels
- California Ground Squirrel (Otospermophilus beecheyi)
Class: Reptiles
(4 records)
- Order: Lizards and Snakes
(4 records)
- Family: Iguanas
- Blainville's Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma blainvillii)
- Family: North American Spiny Lizards
- Western Fence Lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis)
- Family: Snakes
- Striped Racer (Masticophis lateralis)
- Family: Vipers and Pit Vipers
- Western Rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus)