Friday, September 30, 2011
Second visit in the rain?!?!
My second visit was yesterday 9/29/2011. It was not a perfect day. In fact it was quite the opposite. Going out in my camouflage clothes I sat at my tree on the very wet ground. It was smelling fresh and like the fresh fallen rain. Under the trees it was almost like it was still raining instead of the slight drizzle that was still in the air. At 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm the day had taken a turn from pretty nice to wall of black cloud that totally blocked out most to all light. Going out to my field study area there was just enough light to see the trees in front of me. Around me I could hear dripping and the rustle of leaves. At first I thought this was animals, but instead it was just the dripping off the leaves. Sitting out here for an entire hour I did not see one animal. For me this just shows that animals can sense the weather and they went and holed themselves up for the night. This was a peaceful visit, but it did not allow me to gather any data due to a unfortunate fact that the rain drove the animal movement down to a zero.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
First Visit
My first visit to the woods was today, tuesday 9/20/2011. I went out onto the nature trail right behind my house and walked out to my field study area. It was a crisp clear night and I sat at the base of a big tree. I sat there from 7pm to 8pm. This will be my set time to go out to my study area and take data along with the day being tuesday. As I sat out there it was still bright and there was birds singing everywhere. I knew it was only a matter of time until the area around me would begin to settle down after me walking through it. Not even 10 minutes passed and I heard rustling and a chipmunk pops out of nowhere and runs past me. Aslo a little later I saw a squirrel and a bird in trees running around. As it got closer and closer to 8pm more insects and their noises came with them. As it got close to going inside I noticed everything around me. The slight yellowing in the leaves and also how they were rustling in the leaves. This is my first visit and there is going to be many more in the future!
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