A Year in the Forest

Back to my evening walk.  It is really dry here now.  Today was the first time in several weeks that there were not enough mushrooms too pick for a meal.  The ones that were there have been eaten by the animals.  About the only animal I saw this evening was a deer who came busting through the woods and stopped abruptly when it saw me.  The squirrels are still busy with the nuts. 

I have been noticing somethning the last couple of weeks.  Something is tearing into the old stumps and logs.  I at first thought it was the woodpeckers, but with the amount of damage done it would take several hundred working round the clock to do it.  I suspect coons or possums or skunks tearing into them to get bugs.  There is one stump that has been almost destroyed the last week.