Visit #5

 Field study info

  • Same spot photo




  • Date 
  • November 11
  • Time
  • 10:45 - 11:00
  • Climate / conditions 
  • very cloudy, windy, and brisk. Almost no sunlight the entire time I was there.
  • Temperature 
  • 55 degrees
  • Length of day
  • 7:31 am - 5:24 pm ( 9 hours and 53 minutes)
  • Felt, smelled, heard, seen 
  • The ground was very dry and so were all the sticks I picked up (there were a lot more on the ground than before).  I smelled a bonfire scent faintly and also the smell of very crisp windy air. I heard a bit of highway noise and some branches rustling, but NO LEAVES on the branches, those are all completely gone. I also heard no birds at all this time which was strange and I didn’t realize how much noise that had made before until they were gone. Almost none of the landscape had any color now. It has all transitioned into grays and golds.







  • Changes noticed
  • No birds singing, no leaves on the trees or on the ground, and not much color in the plants. And lots of the formerly green plants are dying.



  • Questions
  • If there are no leaves on the trees and none on the ground, where did they all go?
  • Why were the birds so quiet? Have they already begun migrating?
  • Awe
  • I found awe in the new neutral colors. Though I’m sad to see the flowers go, the gold grasses are really beautiful too.



Comments

  1. hc biologyNovember 16, 2024 at 6:31 PM

    Look into migrating times for bonus...post and link sources in your next visit.

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