Field Study Blog

 Date and Time: October 30, 5:45 Weather: Cloudy and cold  Air temperature: 49 degrees  Length of day: 10 hours and 22 minutes, Sunrise- 8:14, Sunset - 6:37 Organisms felt, heard, seen etc: When I went and observed around sunset, it was pretty quit out. There were a few ripples in the water from the fish and I heard some birds coming from the right of the pond in the trees and I could also hear a few cars passing on the road nearby. For the most part it was very quiet which is a change since my first and second visit when it was a little warmer out.  Change since last visit: I noticed that a lot of the algae that was on the pond turned black and was more towards the edge of the pond and not in the middle. A lot of the plants looked dark brown, red or some of them even black and so did the water. There was a lot of trash near the edges of the pond. There is a few leaves on the trees from a distance but no leaves on the trees by the pond. Theres a lot more sticks layin...

Date and Time: October 13, 6:15 Weather: Cloudy, windy and was raining a little Air temperature: 52 degrees  Length of Day: 11 hours and 10 minutes, Sunrise- 6:56, Sunset- 6:07 Organisms felt, heard, seen etc: For the short amount of time that I was there today, I noticed there were not a lot of things that I could hear. I noticed that all the green algae that was on top of the pond turned black and was sitting in clumps at the top of the pond. A distance away I could hear a few squirrels climbing up and down the trees to the left of me but other then that didn't hear really anything else.  Change since last visit: Since my last visit, theres a lot more leaves on the ground and in the pond then in a trees. There are almost no more leaves on the trees surrounding the pond. Some of the bushes surrounding the pond are becoming more of a red color then a green and there are a lot less plants growing along side the pond.