The composition of tree species in my site at home is similar to my site in Centennial Woods. The primary species in both are red maple, white pine, and red oak with some beech and black cherry. However, my site at home lacks Norway maple and has species I didn’t observe in Centennial woods such as sugar maple, hemlock, black birch, and aspen. Like in Centennial woods, my site at home is regularly used by people and has a trail that runs through. It also exhibits signs of its past land use as a farm with the piles of stones moved for crop fields, stone walls, and barbed wire. One major difference in the current land use is that Centennial woods is conserved and our land here is private land that my parents manage and regularly take/cut trees and control invasive species with pesticides.
In terms of phenology, the red oaks at this point have lost all but just a few of their leaves so the beech are essentially the only deciduous species here to still be holding onto leaves. The ferns that we have growing here have all died back in the cold, waiting to grow again next spring although, in other areas of the woods, there are species of ferns that remain green. The only animal activity I observed today was a squirrel running through and seeing a pile of broken open shells of nuts that had been eaten by squirrels or chipmunks.
Here is a link to my updated google map including my site at home: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=15sSdb-xryIs0aMJNcVSWqgakFRzlOLIH&ll=42.418968897375755%2C-72.71575634463655&z=17