As I sit in my phenology spot I can smell the crisp fall air that has settled over Burlington. I saw a bird fly through and land on the beech tree near the stream bank for a few minutes. I can hear the stream flowing by me and in the distance I can hear the dog that I hiked past barking at something.
There has not been much change to my phenology location since my last visit. The only visible change is that the deciduous trees in the area have lost most of their leaves and there was and increase amount of leaf litter covering the forest floor.