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Coyote Creek Visitor Center BioBlitz, 7/15/23 by Ronald Horii
On 7/15/23, there was a BioBlitz starting at the Coyote Creek Visitor Center in Anderson Lake County Park in Morgan Hill. This was the description: "Join Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful, Bioblitz.club, and POST for a BioBlitz! A BioBlitz is an event that focuses on finding and identifying as many species as possible in a specific area over a short period of time. At a BioBlitz, scientists, families, students, teachers, and other community members work together to get an overall count of the plants, animals, fungi, and other organisms that live in a place.
Join the BioBlitz at Coyote Creek Visitors Center where you and experts come together to explore Anderson Lake Park, and document observations of all living things in a short period of time.
Docents will guide you and teach you to use the iNaturalist app on your smartphone to record all the living things you encounter. Flowers, trees, butterflies, dragonflies, and beetles, birds, and squirrels. We love them all – now let’s go find them!" This was the first time that POST, the Peninsula Open Space Trust, co-sponsored the event (https://openspacetrust.org/). Mark Medeiros and Mary Frances Lynch were there from POST, helping out. Participants met at the Coyote Creek Visitor Center. Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful (KCCB) had a sign-in tent with information. Participants split up into groups, led by experts, and explored the area, looking for living things and uploading observations into the iNaturalist app. The last BioBlitz here was on 1/21/23: https://tinyurl.com/mr2myrtr. There was a mini-BioBlitz here during Coyote Creek Habitat Day on 4/1/23: https://tinyurl.com/25aefdwm. ------------------ Links: This event was organized by Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful: https://www.keepcoyotecreekbeautiful.org/ ------------------ https://www.facebook.com/CoyoteCreekSJ/ ------------------ It was organized by biologist Merav Vonshak, who has been holding BioBlitzes in other parts of the county. Merav created this website for BioBlitzes: https://www.bioblitz.club/ ------------------ and this Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/bioblitz.club ------------------ Project page for this BioBlitz: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/coyote-creek-summer-2023-bioblitz ------------------ Last year's summer BioBlitz at the Coyote Creek Visitor Center, 6/19/22: https://tinyurl.com/53px9eek. ------------------ More of my BioBlitz pictures: http://www.rhorii.com/#Bioblitz ------------------ iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/ ------------------ Anderson Lake County Park: https://www.sccgov.org/sites/parks/parkfinder/Pages/AndersonLake.aspx ------------------ Coyote Creek Parkway: https://www.sccgov.org/sites/parks/parkfinder/Pages/CoyoteCreekParkway.aspx ------------------ My Coyote Creek Parkway pictures: http://www.rhorii.com/#CoyoteCreekParkway. Here's a summary of the event from KCCB:
Here are some highlights:
We had a total of 32 attendees look and recording living things.
Together we made 541 observations.
In total we found 181 different species (impressive!)
On 7/15/23, there was a BioBlitz starting at the Coyote Creek Visitor Center in Anderson Lake County Park in Morgan Hill. This was the description: "Join Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful, Bioblitz.club, and POST for a BioBlitz! A BioBlitz is an event that focuses on finding and identifying as many species as possible in a specific area over a short period of time. At a BioBlitz, scientists, families, students, teachers, and other community members work together to get an overall count of the plants, animals, fungi, and other organisms that live in a place.
Join the BioBlitz at Coyote Creek Visitors Center where you and experts come together to explore Anderson Lake Park, and document observations of all living things in a short period of time.
Docents will guide you and teach you to use the iNaturalist app on your smartphone to record all the living things you encounter. Flowers, trees, butterflies, dragonflies, and beetles, birds, and squirrels. We love them all – now let’s go find them!" This was the first time that POST, the Peninsula Open Space Trust, co-sponsored the event (https://openspacetrust.org/). Mark Medeiros and Mary Frances Lynch were there from POST, helping out. Participants met at the Coyote Creek Visitor Center. Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful (KCCB) had a sign-in tent with information. Participants split up into groups, led by experts, and explored the area, looking for living things and uploading observations into the iNaturalist app. The last BioBlitz here was on 1/21/23: https://tinyurl.com/mr2myrtr. There was a mini-BioBlitz here during Coyote Creek Habitat Day on 4/1/23: https://tinyurl.com/25aefdwm. ------------------ Links: This event was organized by Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful: https://www.keepcoyotecreekbeautiful.org/ ------------------ https://www.facebook.com/CoyoteCreekSJ/ ------------------ It was organized by biologist Merav Vonshak, who has been holding BioBlitzes in other parts of the county. Merav created this website for BioBlitzes: https://www.bioblitz.club/ ------------------ and this Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/bioblitz.club ------------------ Project page for this BioBlitz: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/coyote-creek-summer-2023-bioblitz ------------------ Last year's summer BioBlitz at the Coyote Creek Visitor Center, 6/19/22: https://tinyurl.com/53px9eek. ------------------ More of my BioBlitz pictures: http://www.rhorii.com/#Bioblitz ------------------ iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/ ------------------ Anderson Lake County Park: https://www.sccgov.org/sites/parks/parkfinder/Pages/AndersonLake.aspx ------------------ Coyote Creek Parkway: https://www.sccgov.org/sites/parks/parkfinder/Pages/CoyoteCreekParkway.aspx ------------------ My Coyote Creek Parkway pictures: http://www.rhorii.com/#CoyoteCreekParkway. Here's a summary of the event from KCCB:
Here are some highlights:
We had a total of 32 attendees look and recording living things.
Together we made 541 observations.
In total we found 181 different species (impressive!)
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