Elise's Field Study

  Cattails A small black and white wood pecker Duckweed is mostly gone compared to my last visit  Saw male and female mallard ducks My sound map Stu Visser Trails Fourth Visit October 30, 6:02 PM. Theres cloudy skies and no wind. It's about 59 degrees outside. It's slightly colder than my last visit. In addition I noticed that theres a lot less duck weed probably due to less sunlight. Also I made a sound map of what I had heard. I did not hear any bugs like during August. Today's length of day is 10 hours and 23 minutes. On this visit I saw mallard ducks, a small black and white woodpecker, and wrens

Stu Visser Trails Third Visit October 14, 5:35 PM. It's 56 degrees and cloudy. There is no wind or rain.  It's a few degrees colder than my last visit on September 29. Length of day is 11 hours and 17 minutes. I didn't hear any bugs, like my last visit. Although I did hear some birds and also saw a fish in the stream. In addition, I saw that the trees leaves have changed to orange. 

Stu Visser Trails Second Visit September 29, 4:58 PM. Theres clear skies and no wind. It's about 62 degrees outside, much colder than my last visit. Today's length of day is 11 hours and 53 minutes. On this visit I saw two small painters turtles on a log. Also I heard less bugs than my last visit.

 

  My first visit was on Sept 9, 2022 at 3:29 pm. It's a sunny day and the temperature is 77 degrees. The length of day is 6:51 AM to 8:32 PM. I only saw a few birds, no turtles which live in the swampy area. There are a lot of bugs, although I do not know the species. But, I did see a lot of these yellow flowers. They are called s potted touch-me-nots.