Event Mapping – Miranda Garrow's Phenology Site

Since all the leaves have fallen at my site, I have really taken notice of how much dead material there is. This dead material is perfect habitat and feeding ground for the Pileated Woodpecker. A lot of the damage had been done by the wood peckers took me by surprise because that is not something that I have the chance to see a lot. The squirrels are still playing but spend a lot more time digging under the leaves to look for nuts. They are starting to get noticeably fatter than they were in my first few visits. The snake hole that I found on my last visit had been disturbed by people hanging out at my site I am assuming. There were also carvings in some of the trees from students as well, a few that I could not include in my post. I also had some birds circling over my head while I was at my site as well although I am not sure what they were because they were too high up for my eyes to see. There is a bank that I did not include in my site and I wonder if there was something dead over the bank that I could not see that the birds were after. I included the picture of the toilet just outside of my actual site because it always amuses me to see it when I enter my site. I wonder about how it got there or what the persons thought was when they put it there. I hope no one uses it. I wonder if the squirrels explore it or call it home perhaps.