Sunday morning in the Woods.
I took loppers and saw to clear a trail across the center of the Tree Loop oval.. from the 100 m post on the west side by the blackjack oaks to the 300 m post on the east side. I connected with orange flagging bits, the trails to the central bumelia and the snail experiment, following a route made by animal traffic.
Yesterday and today I saw no tracks of dogs anywhere. They look to be gone.
A large 71 cm DBH cottonwood snag ( # 617) has broken this spring along the SE Trail. It will be interesting to watch the decomposition and colonization by beetles and fungi.
Spring wildflowers in bloom in the Woods today: purple violets (2), Cardamine toothwort, Capsella shepherd's purse, Lamium amplexicaule & L purpureum Henbit, Taraxacum dandelions, Stellaria chickweed.. also foliage of Galium bedstraw.
I saw first frog of the spring leap into the long pool along the southern wash. All the waters of the Woods have been notably quiet until now.. no amphibians, insects, turtles etc observed. I have wondered why?
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