Sept 3, 2016
This is a diary recording a walk across my brother’s property in Rush, NY. I have a few earlier diaries on this tract covering a general time period including some autumn pictures, and also a diary from this spring that has details on the layout:
First Diary - Woods and Stream
Second Diary: Woods and Stream II
A few of the pictures roughly match the viewpoint from photos in the earlier diaries.
It’s been a fairly hot and dry summer in this stretch of western New York state. Lower than normal water levels, and therefore smaller streams and ponds have completely dried up. Our walk route was to go up the edge of the lower fields, cross the tree line into the upper field, cross the upper field into the woodlot, cut east up into the wetland area, and then cut back along the edge of the property and back down through the two fields to the car.
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Corn on the edges, or in certain spots were shorter. And there were places where deer, raccoon or other critters had been eating their fill.
The meadow edge had a variety of plants growing in it. The teasle was past blooming. The Queen Anne’s Lace was mostly done blooming. The main plant blooming along the edges was Goldenrod, and the bees and small flies were paying it a lot of attention.
There were also a few patches of something in the nightshade family blooming in one corner of the field.
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Now It's Your Turn
What have you noted happening in your area or travels? As usual post your observations as well as their general location in the comments.
Thanks for coming along on the walk.