Oxbow Regional Park

We headed over to Oxbow Regional Park for a Family Nature Explorers class.  We met on the floodplain and rambled over to the Sandy River to see what we could see.  Oxbow is a gem any time of the year.  We watched a family of five osprey teaching the fledgelings to fly.  We found a red-legged frog in a stream.  We searched for animal tracks and water critters. It was a great day to be outside. 

Pearly everlasting.

A deer  track showing all four toes.

Salal.

Two hind prints from a raccoon-  two raccoons passing through? Or one doing a dance?

Red-legged frog.

A mayfly.  The adults typically live for about 24 hours.

We think this is a mayfly larva.