Exploring a Natural Area

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There are three spots but one end is close to the other so it doesn’t show.

It has been rainy. Walking in the woods I could see everything was damp. The bark, the soil, the plants. Water droplets shined on branches and pines. I was on a mission that day, find the birds. I could describe those two hours in one word, an adventure! I admired the rain and the sounds of birds. I noticed the change in Sugar maples and looked at the different soils for the different tree types. The sugar maples had started to loose its leaves. It is beautiful to see their golden leaves fall slowly. It was so cool to actually look at the different soil for different trees. I’m an experimental learner so it was amazing how I could apply my descriptions to what I saw! You can see the pictures in the new soil page I made. I took so many pictures; I was really inspired. I will post them throughout this week. I finally was able to get a video of a woodpecker! It took a lot of patience for my ears and eyes.

I remembering being in awe, seeing the red maples change their leaf color to a fiery red a few weeks ago. I just read that red maples in swamp areas change their colors earlier in the fall than red maples not in those environments. That’s why it was one of the first trees to change colors-learning something new everyday!

I will show pictures and videos of evidence of wildlife and other species! There’s also a page where I list wildlife and other species I found.

I went out in the snow. It felt brisk. I first noticed a large white bird. I tried to get a closer look to identify and take a picture but it flew away before I could get the chance. It could have been a bald headed wading bird. It was beautiful and majestic. I had just bought a birds guide book for the birds of Vermont so I was ready to identify bird species when I got the chance. Probably due to the cold weather there weren’t many birds flying around. I couldn’t hear as many songs. There was a change, it was starting to feel more like winter. The environment around me appeared more bleak. I observed there were less leaves on the ground and they had blown into the water; there was more leaf litter in the stream.

There were bunches of needles attached to branches

Eastern white pines has lost their limbs

branches flew on hemlocks adjacent to them.

There were branches and twigs splattered on the ground

It felt more bleak

The brown ferns had disappeared

The ones still there withered

Leaves curled up and shriveled

There’s less moss on the logs

Mushrooms are all gone

Environment is responding to change