Tyler Starr
2 November 2008 from 1600-1615
Location: The northwest corner of campus, along the art building
Weather: Off and on showers, no wind, 54 ̊ F
General: I went over to see how the squirrel carcass was doing from a couple of weeks back. On the way over there, I noticed the patch of mushrooms that I had observed before. There are even more of them now, and in several places they grow in very dense clusters, resembling the downtown of a city with skyscrapers (see picture). Once I got over to near the squirrel carcass, I noticed that the ground and sidewalk are far more covered with leaves than the rest of campus. Perhaps the groundskeepers don’t spend as much time over here since it is very rarely traveled. I walked back toward the kiln where the squirrel carcass has been decomposing. When I last saw it, it was just a skeleton with a furry tail. Today, there were far fewer remains. One leg bone was in its original location. A few feet off was another bone, and what may have been the jaw and skull was a couple of feet past that, although its shape was different than before. There was no longer a furry tail, but instead there was what looked like a long bone with tufts of haggard, black hairs. It seems like nature has made off with all that it could from this squirrel carcass.
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