After a 90 degree day on Tuesday, Wednesday was at least 20 degrees cooler with a good bit of biting wind. A year ago, 6-14-17, we hiked the newly opened northern section of Fernandez Ranch in a clockwise loop. Today eight of us did a counter-clockwise "lollipop". We went out Windmill to Woodland, took Franklin Ridge back to the gate at the saddle, then Woodrat back to Windmill. Just under 4.2 miles.
It was a day of long views over hills of golden grass. There were some flowers including the most prolific display of dark purple T. laxa that we can remember and a lush section of profusely blooming sticky monkey flower. This is a quiet space with few other hikers. We saw lots of birds...hawks, of course, but there were towhees (both brown and rufous-sided), wrens, and jays in the woodland areas and bluebirds and lark sparrows in the open grassland.
It was another wonderful Wednesday!!!
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