Paul's Field study

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Visit 5

November 15, 2017

I visited the sanctuary woods bowl on Wednesday, November 15. I arrived at 5:30 P.M. and left at 6:00. It was around 44 degrees at the time of my visit, and the weather was dark clouds covering the sky, with light rain. It was a 9 hour and 44 minute day. There was a lot of change since my last visit in terms of the trees/vegetation. All the leaves had ceased to be bright colors, and had become a dark brown. Fallen leaves were also all over the ground beneath the trees. I heard a cicada's high pitched noise to the north, it was somewhere beyond the bowl in the woods. I could also hear the lake very loudly, and when I climbed to the top of the bowl I could see it was very wavy. I did not visually see any organisms on this visit, and the only one I heard was the cicada.

Visit 4

October 30, 2017

I visited my field study location on Sunday, Oct 29. I arrived at 4:30, and left at 4:40. It was about 46 degrees out at the time, with slight wind, overcast skies, and on and off rain. It was a 10 hour and 22 minute day. Their weren't noticeably more orange leaves, but all the leaves had at least changed to a lighter green since my last visit. The long grass that was previously dying is now almost all dead, flattened, and gray. I did not see any organisms this time either, but I did see a footprint of what appears to be a dog.

Visit 3

October 15, 2017

It was Sunday, October 15. I arrived at 4:00, and left at 4:14. Around 54 degrees outside, very cloudy, and the ground and trees were wet from on and off raining all day. It was an 11 hour and 4 minute day today. The leaves have definitely started changing, about 3/8 leaves are of changed color. The plants are mostly dead or dying up in the bowl right now. I saw no organisms today, but I did hear a bird of some sort coming from the direction of the lake, directly west. What sort of bird this was, I have no guess. It sounded like it was around 50 feet in the air, and 120 feet away.

Visit 2

September 28, 2017

Field Notebook: It was Thursday, September 28. I arrived at 4:40, and left at 5:00. Around 70 degrees outside, very sunny, almost no cloud coverage. It was an 11 hour and 51 minute day today. The leaves are beginning to change, about 1/8 leaves are of changed color. I saw a bug that I later identified to be a burrowing beetle. It was easy to spot on the sand because of its red coloring. I found it on a dying plant growing in the sand.