Animals/Insects

I visited the nearby pine tree reserve and the reservoir. The weather today was colder than usual so I thought I would only find one type of metazoan/animal. I initially started looking for protostomes. Maybe if it rained, I would have seen my favorite annelids: terrestrial earthworms. Unfortunately, I didn't find any of the mouth first animals. I struggled to find insects much less mollusks.

However, I did find deuterstomes with the common theme of feathers (minus one furry exception). Not too far from a birch tree covered in mushrooms, I spotted a bald eagle surveying the area from really high. I also noticed 3 types of birds in the reservoir (mute swan, mallard, and Canada goose).

My final observation - a fifth vertebrate - was a gray squirrel. It was so fast but I guess it was too cold to be staying on the grass. Or maybe it was just relocating a nut.

Posted on November 29, 2022 02:49 AM by itohan