My last visit for the semester took place during a particularly muddy day. My spot has not changed drastically since November, but I did find some interesting and notable things to share!
To start off, we have almost no leaves on the trees anymore! The trees that still had two or three leaves on them were mostly sugar or striped maples, but probably 99% of the leaves are on the ground now.
Speaking of leaves on the ground, they are starting to decompose! Some leaves have holes in them and I found some small fallen tree branches with fungi growing on them. The most obvious plants still holding on for the winter were lots of ferns. Otherwise, not much green left in my spot.
It’s a little easier to try and track animals now that you can see through the trees. I saw what appears to be the start or perhaps abandoned bird’s nest up in the trees. If there were any animal tracks in the past few days, the rain we had has definitely washed them away. I got excited when I saw something that could be animal scat on the ground but pretty sure it’s just dog. I did spot something interesting in one of the pine trees!
Not sure if this is from bird activity because I did not see any birds flying about. In fact, my spot was fairly quiet in comparison to when I first started visiting. The animals know winter is coming!
I think that wraps up my blog for this semester!