Diario de zanefour

Although it's a poor quality photo, I'm pretty sure I witnessed a Western Scrub Jay while hiking on the Stonewall Panoramic Trail. It looked like it was perched on Coyote Brush.

Due to an extremely busy week,unfortunately highlighted by two midterms, I was unable to venture into a truly natural area, like the Berkeley hills. Therefore, I decided to attempt to track the inertia of nature in the concrete streets of Berkeley. By this, I mean I looked for spots in which plants seemed to exist without human intervention and care within the cityscape, specifically ones that had sprung up through or around curbs. I took photos of quite a few different plants, but I wasn't completely sure which were wild/naturalized, so I attached all of them.The changing of the seasons was definitely at play for the plants I observed because they appeared to have bloomed in response to the arrival of spring. I noticed this because I had walked through many of these areas in the past year and they were previously bare.

In addition to the plants, I also observed a Cross Orbweaver spider and what appeared to be a fly of the Superfamily Muscoidea. While I'm unsure of whether the spring season affected the spider's appearance, the fly was busy pollinating a newly blooming Naples Garlic plant when I snapped a photo of it.

1. A plant with regular flowers - Pot Marigold (Calendula officinalis)
2. A plant with irregular flowers - Daffodils (Genus Narcissus)
3. A monocot - Three-cornered Leek (Allium triquetrum)
4. A dicot - Red-flowering Currant (Ribes sanguineum)
5. A plant in the pea family (Fabaceae) - Green Wattle
6. A Gymnosperm - Pines (Genus Pinus)
7. A terrestrial plant that is not a seed plant - Unidentified Plant # 2
8. A plant with pinnate leaves - Western Swordfern (Polystichum munitum)
9. A plant with opposite lives - Unidentified Plant # 1
10. A plant in the sunflower family (Asteraceae)- Dandelions (Genus Taraxacum)