Winter has finally come to Redstone Quarry. Any Dedacious trees that were still holding leaves have let them go, and only the conifers show green. Even the willows which seemed to hold out the longest have shed their leaves. The ponds have frozen over for the most part with much of the duckweed that covered its surface either trapped below or within the ice. The cattails have for the most part died back for the season, even the straggling seed clumps have begun to shed seeds to the high winds we’ve been having. With little food but a few dying berries remaining it seems like many of the animals have also moved on from the quarry. A few squirrel and bird nests were now visible thanks to a diminished canopy but other than that the only signs of life to be seen were the distant chirping of a chickadee and a lone male cardinal that bid me farewell as I left the quarry for the season.
