7 October 2023
The most efficient footage from this week had been printed already (The previous day at Hays Woods Chicken Banding) so I’m achieving again to past due September for a couple of of items I’ve observed.
Bees of a wide variety are interested in deep crimson asters beside the Westinghouse Memorial pond in Schenley Park. The honeybee, above, is difficult to look close to the flower’s orange middle.
At Duck Hole, yellow jewelweed nonetheless has flora in addition to fats seed pods. Attempt to pull one of the most pods from the stem and spot what occurs.
On 28 September I explored the slag heap apartments close to Swisshelm Park the place (I believe) sun arrays will probably be put in. For the reason that slag is porous the apartments are a dry grass/scrub land the place this shrub would have carried out smartly apart from that it’s been over-browsed by means of too many deer. It looks as if bonsai.
Deer overpopulation could also be obtrusive by means of the browse line on the fringe of the apartments.
On 26 September at Duck Hole I encountered an optical phantasm the place 9 Mile Run empties into the Monongahela River. It seems like this downed, waterlogged tree is damming the creek and that the water is decrease at the downriver aspect of it. This phantasm appears to be brought about by means of the graceful water floor on one aspect of the log.
We discovered a tiny pink centipede crossing the path at Frick Park on 30 September …
… and a puffball mushroom out of doors the Canine Park.
On 27 September loads, if now not 1000’s, of crows accrued at nightfall close to Neville Side road in Shadyside sooner than flying to the roost. I assumed this could occur once more day after today however they modified their plan and feature now not come this shut once more.
Once in a while break of day is probably the most gorgeous a part of the day.
Those footage don’t give the impact that it’s been abnormally dry, however precipitation in Pittsburgh is down 6″ for the 12 months. Nearly 2″ of that deficit happened in September. The Fall Colour Prediction says our leaf color-change is later than standard.
(footage by means of Kate St. John)