Journal Entry 7
4/14- Silver Lake
I went south on a family outing to Silver Lake, Washington, near Mt. St Helens and decided to capture some of the local vegetation and wildlife for the inaturalist project. On Saturday the 14th, we stayed at a bed and breakfast very near Silver Lake off the Spirit Lake Highway. The trail around Silver Lake was unfortunately very short, amounting only to about a mile and a half, as it was only a partial trail around the nearest portion of the lake to the highway. However, I managed to see numerous organisms that I had not seen elsewhere in the quarter like on the field trip to Mt. Rainier. I took pictures of many plants, most notably the skunk cabbage and fairy-slipper along this trail. Additionally, I managed to see a red-winged blackbird. The environment of the Silver Lake trial was surprisingly diverse given its limited expanse. Parts were densely forested by large Douglas firs and other conifers, and it is here where I found plants like the fairy slipper and some lichens. However, as the forest canopy opened up approaching the lake, there were swampy, muggy areas where plants like the skunk cabbage and tufted hair grass were found. Finally, it opened up to full on water, including a brief boardwalk connecting the bank to a narrow strip of land slightly further out on the water. In the water were arrowheads, along with some willows I believe that served as perches to numerous birds. It is here that I saw the red-winged blackbird, Canada geese, mallard ducks, and heard many others but could not get accurate pictures.
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