16 November 2024
This week I discovered witch-hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) blooming in Schenley Park and was startled by a whoosh of wings that handed proper in entrance of me under eye stage. I used to be so startled that I screamed despite the fact that I knew that …
The whoosh was an immature red-tailed hawk zipping by to catch a mouse close to the wall. In stealth mode the hawk didn’t flap his wings however he flew fairly near me. If I didn’t like birds I might need been freaked out. He caught the mouse and I took his image when he settled down.
By now most oaks have misplaced their leaves so the predominant colour in Schenley and Frick is brown. Brown on the bottom and many naked timber.
In Schenley Park you may simply see by means of the woods at floor stage as a result of the deer have eaten all of the thickets.
In Frick Park I noticed an uncommon patch of inexperienced, in all probability an alien plant, so I went down there to test it out.
Positive sufficient, that is an alien — stinging nettle (Urtica dioica), native to Eurasia and Africa. Deer eat stinging nettle in spring and summer season however are shunning it right now of yr.
By now the one place to seek out good reds is within the sky.
