Quick walk around the Redmond Watershed trails this morning. The route was a messy exterior loop starting/finishing at the northern parking lot with side trips to the old dam site and frog pond for a total of about 5.2 miles. Parking is free at either the north or main southern lot. Full restrooms were open and in good condition at the south lot (no facilities at the north lot.) No pets allowed as per normal at this property. The trails were in excellent condition plus there was a crew out brushing the Siler’s Mill trail on the eastern side doing a super nice job, kudos. Did see what appeared to be some bear scat at a single location in the NE section but no other tracks or evidence.
Wildlife this morning included a bunch of douglas squirrel, lots of nice summer bird song, garter snakes, heard but did not see a raven, a couple wood ducks and a merganser on frog pond, plus there are a number of areas along the utility corridors where you could see that deer had bedded which is kinda neat. Lots of foxgloves, some fireweed, native rose, field clover, purple hedge nettle, daisies, etc, etc brightening the meadows. There are a few spots where ghost plant/indian pipe is coming up already too (creepy!) A super nice little forest walk if you are in the area.
Link to further info about the location - https://www.redmond.gov/facilities/facility/details/Watershed-Preserve-Trails-76
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