Hello Fall!
Welcome back to school everyone and hello fall! Though Friday was the fall equinox of 2018, and temperatures have just started to cool down, Eberwhite Woods still looks like a green jungle. But that green will soon change to many red, yellow, orange, and brown, and animals will begin to prepare for winter. Right now, birds and frogs are not very obvious in the woods - their mating season is over, so frogs have stopped calling and birds are duller in color and vocalizing less. The woods are still filled with noise - chattering chipmunks and squirrels, and their sounds are easily mistaken for birds or frogs. These small mammals are all over the woods and are loudly protecting their territory and warning off interlopers. A fun way to spend a walk with kids is to have them look for the many caches of nuts these rodents have made around the woods. In addition to the small rodents, the other noisy creatures of the forest and surrounding meadow are insects. If you stop to listen t...