10/25/20
Today, October 25th, was a pretty chilly day. It was partly cloudy and was around 41˚F when I was at my site at 5:00pm. Many of the leaves are still on the trees in Centennial Woods. Most of them are yellow, some are orangey-red, and a few are still green. Many of the leaves on the ground, especially in my phenology site, are brown. I heard a lot of birds, especially in the trees along the edge of the wetland, but I wasn’t able to identify them. Parts of the wetland are still very marshy and muddy, which I discovered at the expense of my shoe.
Below is a map that I drew of my phenology site from above. In my map North is not at the top, because I started drawing the way I was facing instead of orienting myself. The shaded area roughly separates the hemlock forest from the deciduous forest but the different symbols, clarified in the key, show that there is a lot of mixing. The line between the forest and the wetland is much harsher.
