Tyler Starr
15 September 2008 from 1733 to 1751
Location: Lawn along the corner of Belknap and Matthews, on the side toward Montag and Baxter, by the Writing Center and Office of International Education.
Weather: 83 ̊ F, no wind, clear skies, but the sun was behind a building so it was shady
General: I first noticed a squirrel on the tree outside the window of my dorm on the second floor of Belknap, so I decided to go outside of my window to do my observation. The squirrel I decided to watch was very active. It kept climbing up one of the three oak trees along Belknap, where it would hang upside down and eat acorns. Oftentimes it would come down the tree with acorns in its mouth, and bury them under one of two bushes. One time I got a perfectly clear view of it burying its acorns, which was interesting. I also got a pretty good view through the trees of it eating an acorn, and so I took a picture. When it is up in the trees, many acorns fall off onto the ground. I also saw a dragonfly fly over us in a zigzag pattern. The people I was with were looking at the ground, and one spotted a four-leaf clover within a minute. We all then kept looking, and in less than 5 minutes time, we had found 4 four-leaf clovers, and even 1 five-leaf clover. There must be a genetic mutation or something in the patch of clovers where we were sitting for there to be so many of them.
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