manuelakriemler's Journal

Today, I walked to Houghton Garden with a fellow Eco and Evo classmate. It has been raining all day, but thankfully it stopped right before I took my walk. Because of the rain, it was overcast and very humid out. The garden was very beautiful and it did not feel like I was so close to campus. The theme of this nature walk was fungi and I was not hopeful that we would find many. As soon as we started walking, I noticed a lot of biodiversity in this garden environment, including many types of trees, greenery, and flowers. I also saw some squirrels and ducks, but pictures were hard to capture. When I spotted my first mushroom, I realized that they blend in really well with the environment, which is why it was hard to find. After this, I started noticing the fungi a lot more and I was able to capture pictures of many different species of fungi. They all look so different from each other and it was fascinating to see how prevalent they were in this environment.

My nature walk took place on October 19, 2022. It was a beautiful sunny day, so I decided to take a walk along the Reservoir by BC campus. The weather was around 50-60 degrees F and it was a little windy out, so it felt colder than it was. I have not done my nature walk here yet and I was surprised by how many different types of plants I found. I saw a lot of angiosperms (flowering plants) that looked like tiny little white flowers but you could tell they were different species. The Great Mullein that I saw is also an angiosperm, as well as the Ampelopsis. The berries that grew on the ampelopsis tree were really unique because they ranged from purples and blues. I also saw Bryophyta in the presence of mosses on trees. It was very interesting that even in the same plant group, species can look very different from one another.