October 8 Observations

Today I walked around Strawbridge Lake, which is about four miles from my house and is surrounded by a highway on one side and a neighborhood on the other. It was sunny and 65 degrees, and there was a slight breeze and no humidity. I saw a variety of organisms both in the water and on the outskirts of the lake, including multiple different kinds of trees and plants, moss, lichen, and cyanobacteria. The moss and lichen, which I found on different trees, were growing on the bottom, almost on the roots. One of the trees I observed, the European Beech, was especially interesting because it was in the process of shedding its bark, so it looked camouflage.

Posted on October 8, 2020 08:00 PM by gianna_jarmain