19 de octubre de 2022

Nature Walk #3 - October 19th, 2022

Today i decided to walk around the Pine Tree Reserve and around the wooded area next to the Res since I was on a tight schedule. The weather was very nice, it was sunny with clear skies yet it was a little chilly today. But I did enjoy the fresh air and the break from being in classes all day. As I walked around the first thing I noticed was a lot of ferns near by. Which falls into the seedless vascular polypodiopsida classification of plants. In which they disperse their gametes via water which is pretty clear considering how I found them in a large bunch. As I kept walking I also say plenty of angiosperms or flowering plants everywhere and I decided to take a picture of two of them. Which are identified as the toadflax and the asters and allies. Since I was in and near the Pine Tree Reserve there were a lots of pines present to take pictures of. Pine trees are considered a form of an evergreen tree meaning they are under the distinction of Gymnosperms or non-flowering seed plants. I did though have a hard time finding a bryophyta but I eventually found moss on a rock in the woods near the Res. Mosses are nonvascular plants and I don't see them regularly so it was nice to find some.

Publicado el octubre 19, 2022 09:40 TARDE por davisbaz davisbaz | 5 observaciones | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario

06 de octubre de 2022

Thursday October 6th, 2022

For this Journal I decided to walk around John Chesnut Park that is near my home in Florida. I decided to do this early this morning to go on a little morning walk and due to the fact that the weather yesterday was cold and rainy. But this morning was perfect, it was nice and cool which was great. Since the theme was fungi for this weeks nature walk, I mainly focused on trying to find as much fungi as I could. But, I was only able to find two types of fungi which inaturalist was only to identify one of them. These were both hidden very well underneath some other plants so it took a little while to find. Relating these findings back to the topics we learned back in class we can understand the biodiversity that is surrounding this particular area. Furthermore, this area didn't have much mushroom but the mushroom I did find were not both exactly the same type. I also found them near other plants, which shows a measure of biodiversity in the same area of the park that I was in.

Publicado el octubre 6, 2022 12:52 TARDE por davisbaz davisbaz | 5 observaciones | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario

30 de septiembre de 2022

Pine Tree Preserve Walk Friday September 30th

I decided to go visit the Pine Tree Preserver for the first time today in between my classes. The weather is fairly nice today, it was clear skies and very sunny. Although, it was a tad bit chilly out. I decided to take a few laps around the preserve given that it's very small. But the laps did allow me to see organisms that I didn't notice the first few times I walked around. I also decided to sit down for a bit on one of the benches under the shade to do some school work but I got a little cold and decided to keep walking. I saw lots of plants but not very many animals. Just only saw one squirrel. There were quite a few different types of flowers around and small plants that I couldn't recognize but they all had different types of leaves. I did also find this grey stuff all over all the rocks which inaturalist identified it as Rock Shield Lichens. Overall, I enjoyed the nature walk I went on today and it definitely was a perfect day to go.

Publicado el septiembre 30, 2022 04:29 TARDE por davisbaz davisbaz | 5 observaciones | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario

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