A Year in the Forest

The buzzards made for quite a display.  It is not evident from the pictures but the local crows did not like the buzzards around and were cawing and harassing them.

As you can see the leaves are almost all gone now.  Its been warm and dry for the past week.  The dry leaves are slick to walk on.  Daylight Savings time is in effect and I havn’t had much time to spend in the woods.

      You can see a little of the progression of the falling leaves in the pictures from the last three days.  It has been unusually warm and dry here.  It seems as if the leaves falling are getting more pronounced every day.  Not much new happening.  The birds, squirrels and chipmunks are very active, much more active than during the summer months, I guess preparing for winter.  I have only seen the deer once in the last three days.

  It was a little warmer today.  The birds and squirrels are filling the forest with their voices.  The leaves are falling and covering the ground.

  Another cool day, I did wear long pants again but am still wearing my short sleave shirt.  I worked on the new path again.  It affords a view of the den in the side of the ravine that I wrote about earlier. I encountered a deer again today.  It is getting near deer hunting season and I have expected them to get a little more afraid of me but that has not happened.

The freeze did stop most of the mushroom growth.  Now I will have to start looking at other things.