Site: Cottonwood Ranch
Date: Thursday 22, 2008
Time: 6:30 am
Weather: very damp, Cloudy, chilly 42 degrees, Gloomy
Notes: I managed to get myself up and out quite early in the morning. It was almost as though life doesn’t start living until the afternoon. I can’t blame them. There were no insects out that I could really tell. Although it seemed that the little crow like birds which I have come to find out are, the common Grackle. They have yellow eyes, Shiny heads, which proves my hypothesis wrong, it wasn’t anything in the rain but it was just what they look like. Something I didn’t really notice until I looked them up is that they have an unusually long tail. The cottonwood trees fill a very important niche for these birds it allows them to live without being hunted by dangerous ground animals since they are not the biggest birds in the nest. Anyway so the Common Grackles were having breakfast while I sat out there. I was truly expecting animals such as coyotes or foxes to be more active in the morning but there really wasn’t any sign that they lived there. The grass was sipping in the new dew that was on them. I began thinking does grass have a predator adaptation? I will be sure to look that up. Other than that there wasn’t much significant that changes from am to pm. I might go back in the morning just to make sure.
1 comment:
I like that you have observed at different times of day, and that you noticed the difference between the levels of activities of the animals between those two time periods. Also, you have done a good job identifying various species throughout your observations. Continue to incorporate the ecological terams as you discuss your obesrvation area.
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