Ashley's Field Study Blog

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  1st Visit - September 7 2nd Visit - September 28 3rd Visit - October 11  4th Visit - November 2 5th Visit - November 16

Photo from Same Location Each Visit Photo from Same Location Each Visit with Me in It Date - November 16, 2025 Time - 4:27 p.m. Temperature - 41°F Weather - Partially sunny and cloudy, 14mph wind WNW Length of day - 9 hours 42 minutes Organisms observed - Some birds and squirrels, plants, trees, bushes etc Sounds heard - wind, especially rustling the leaves, a plane overhead, animals rustling in leaves, leaves falling Questions - I wonder how the lack of snow so far this year affects the ecosystems. I wonder if any trees will never completely lose all of their leaves. I wonder when the first snow will be. Changes noticed since last visit - I noticed a lot less animals this time, including few birds, squirrels or chipmunks. I noticed almost no leaves left on the trees and the few that were left had completely changed color.  Lots more fallen leaves! Very few leaves left and all remaining leaves are very light in color. Visibility through trees has increased dramatically due to falle...

Photo from Same Location Each Visit  Date - November 2, 2025 Time - 4:34 p.m. Temperature - 50°F Weather - Mostly cloudy, 12mph wind NE Length of day - 10 hours 15 minutes Organisms observed - Lots of birds, some bugs, lots of trees, brush, plants etc Sounds heard - wind, especially rustling the leaves, lots of birds calling, a neighbor mowing their lawn Questions - I wonder when our first snow will be this year? I wonder what affected the decrease in chipmunk and squirrels? I wonder how having our first hard freeze of the year will affect my field. Changes noticed since last visit - I noticed no chipmunk or squirrels today which I usually find lots of. There were lots more leaves fallen, and a huge changes in the color of leaves, as they became more yellow, red and orange.  Sapling is now about 9.5 inches tall! This is a clubmoss, it is likely a Dendrolycopodium obscurum, also known as a ground pine or princess pine. These are actually not trees and instead using on...