Kitsap Memorial State Park (May 19)
Date and Time: May 19, 3:00pm
Location: Kitsap Memorial State Park, Kitsap County, WA
Weather: Mostly cloudy about 57 degrees
Water temperature: about 40 degrees
Tide conditions: Relatively high
Soil Conditions: Relatively dry
Kitsap Memorial State Park is a 58-acre camping park with about 1,797 feet of saltwater shoreline located on the Kitsap Peninsula on Hood Canal. Here, there are grassy fields, a saltwater beach with tide pools and the best thing about this place that most people love is that you are able to harvest shellfish at this park. While the beach place is a very beautiful location i did most of my hanging out in the woods. The understory of the forest was covered with ferns and ground covering plants such as clover and grasses. But what really caught my attention was the abundance of coniferous trees such as Douglas Firs and Western Red Cedars.
Today, as I was walking under a tree something from the tree fell near me and startled me. And I found out it was a pine cone. I then looked up in the tree and spotted a Chipmunk! A Townsend's Chipmunk to be exact. Townsend's chipmunks are a species of rodent in the squirrel family Sciuridae. They live in forests in the Pacific Northwest of North America, ranging from British Columbia to western Washington and Oregon. A large Townsend's chipmunk can be about 14 inches from its nose to tail. The Townsend's Chipmunk can be distinguishable by its grayish tail on the top and a reddish color beneath the tail, and it has a brownish color to it with black and white stripes. They favor places with mild climates. Their diets include a variety of plants and insects and even birds' eggs. However, in the summer and early fall, Townsend's chipmunks eat a variety of berries such as, blackberries, salal berries, and thimble berries. And in the late fall, they eat acorns, huckleberries, maple seeds, thistle seeds, grain seeds, grass, roots, and conifer seeds. Overall, their diet is variable. Chipmunks are very adorable creatures and here in the Pacific Northwest it's very interesting that the Townsend's Chipmunk is one of the only in this region.
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