Bear food coming up

There will be berries.

Thimbleberry flowers and leaves.

Three stages; buds, flower, pre-berry.

Trailing blackberry, flower and buds.

Coming right along: the salmonberry flowers are done, now there are green berries.

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Habrá frutillas. Comida para los osos y los pájaros. Y un tentempié para mi al pasar por el bosque. 

Fotos:

1 y 2, Thimbleberry, Rubus parviflorus.

3, Mora indígena, Rubus ursinus. (Mora de osos)

y 4, Salmonberry, Rubus spectabilis. (Mora de salmones)

I beat the bears to these

The huckleberries are ripe!

Red huckleberries, Vacciunium parvifolium

They're slightly acid, but sweet. I picked only two handfuls, leaving the rest for the bears and birds.

The bush these came from.

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Los "huckleberry" rojos son una especie de arándano nativo a la costa del Pacífico. Ayer encontré un arbusto lleno de frutas.

La fruta es un poco ácido, pero dulce. Me comí dos puños de fruta, y dejé los demás para los osos y los pájaros.

So pink!

Another of our early spring wildflowers: red-flowering currant.

Ribes sanguineum. The Latin name means "bloody", but the colour varies from pale pink to almost red. This vibrant pink is the most common in this area.

Red-flowering currant is native to BC.This week, they're blooming in the museum woods at the end of my street, along the sides of the road in various places, and probably, unseen, in open areas along our unvisited coast.

The berries are bluish black. They are edible, but tasteless, to humans. The birds like them, though. And hummingbirds visit the flowers.