Date: 10-03
Location: Southwest of Olin’s main entrance
Time: 846-901
Weather: 55˚F, lightly drizzling
The Japanese maple I noticed a month before now has an abundance of scarlet leaves, with only a few facing south a dull hue of green. The seeds are still attached an
d hanging downward. The east side has a bundle of less vibrant red leaves, some even brown in color. I heard several juncos chirping nearby on the tree with yellow dead leaves. The tree still appeared the same in comparison to the last time I had analyzed it, with only several leaves fallen. I wondered if it was originally a shade of gold such that the withered leaves are merely a normal result of autumn. An elevating machine was raised up into a nearby tree with ovate leaves but it didn’t seem the bother the juncos. As I stood there observing the birds, large droplets of water falling from the leaves barraged me while the juncos continued to chirp happily. Were they communicating with each other or celebrating the first rainfall of the month? The tree had deep furrows and mosses lightly coated the top of the branches like green snow. I saw a small bird with a needle beak fly up to the top of the yellow-leaved tree as I was heading back into Olin’s but a crow flew over and perhaps chased it away. It flew back momentarily and rested at approximately the same spot. I heard a squeaking door sound and mistook it for a machine or something but to my surprise, it actually originated from the bird. According to Dave, my colloquium professor, the sound is used for mating. I could barely see the bird, but I noticed that it remained perched for some time before flying off. From the picture I managed to take, I saw that the bird had a white breast and a streak through its eye. I would deduce it was either the Rufous or Allen’s hummingbird but unfortunately, I could not observed the color to definitely identify which of the two species.
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