Owen's Field Study

  Date: 10/29/25 Time of day: 4:15-4:45 PM Present climate conditions: Dry and partially cloudy with some wind Length of day: 10 hours, 25 minutes Temperature: 56 degrees Fahrenheit Feels like temperature: 50 degrees Fahrenheit (because of wind) Map (corresponds to  data table , now updated through data set #4): Changes since last visit: - I did not see any of the pin mold and the location that previously had only leaves on the riverbank. - LOTS of new leaves on the ground. Between this visit and my last, nearly all of the trees and plants have changed color, and many have shed their leaves, and those leaves covered the ground.  Here is a picture of the leaf-clogged river near location 1: The leaves falling also landed on top of the Periwinkle you see in the background of the picture above and more clearly in the picture below: - Leaves changed color (mentioned above), although some were still green.  Here are some pictures of the tops of the trees near the river: He...

  Date: 10/9/25 Time of day: 5:00-5:30 PM Present climate conditions: Dry and sunny Length of day: 11 hours, 21 minutes Temperature: 62 degrees Fahrenheit Map (corresponds to  data table , now updated through data set #3): Changes since last visit: - No Jack in the pulpit plants near location nine (see the map above) - More pin mold/hairy poop mold (below), this time farther up the river, closer to sites 4 and 5. Previous mold was closer to sites 1 and 2.  Animal feces are clearly visible below the mold in some of these pictures. It also appears that this mold grows on different types of animal feces as the feces in the top few images are different shapes compared to the feces in the bottom few images.  - Creek now clogged with leaf litter in some areas (more than before) - Leaves changing color (poison Ivy, hazelnut tree) The two above are Hazelnut, the two below are Poison Ivy.  - Some ferns died, especially those farther than three feet from the water's edge ...