Visit #1

Saturday, September 8, 2012

Time: 11:14

It rained earlier this morning, but now it has cleared up and it's pretty cloudy. It's 63˚ out right now. The day length is 12 hours 49 minutes from sunrise to sunset. There is no constant wind, but there are 4mph gusts going North to Northwest. 

                                                 Queen Anne's Lace & other wild flowers

                                                                puddles after the rain

                                                       grass clippings pile & large plants

                            where the water usually is - I'm pretty sure these are muskrat holes

                                                              bugs on a soybean plant

                                                                 wild strawberry plant

                                                                         milkweed

                                                                  another animal hole

                                  Here's a little grasshopper that decided to jump on my shirt!

When I was on the plot, I saw a lot of insects. There were monarch butterflies and a bunch of smaller butterflies. I could hear crickets chirping and saw a lot of grasshoppers jumping in front of me in the denser grass. I could smell the peculiar wet grass clippings smell.