matttyros's Journal

For this nature walk, I went to the Pine Tree Reserve on BC's Campus. It was very late at night, since I felt like going on a late night walk after finishing an essay. During the walk, I was having trouble finding any insects at all because of how cold and dark it was outside, but I did eventually uncover a slug from underneath some leaves. It was interesting observing the different parts of the mollusk after we had learned about it in class and watching the slug move around using its foot. On the way back from the walk, I had a rabbit run across the walkway in front of me, and I managed to get a picture of that too.

For this nature walk, I went to the Pine Tree Reserve on campus. It was pretty cold out during the walk, especially since it was after the sun went down. The walk ranged from around 6:40 to 7:10 PM, which meant that the darkness caused it to be somewhat difficult to find species to observe. However, I was able to find all four types of plants (Bryophyta, Polypodiopsida, Gymnosperms and Angiosperms) on the walk; the bryophyta observed was a moss growing on a tree, the polypodiopsida was a fern, likely of the genus Dennstaedtia, the gymnosperm was a pine tree and the angiosperm was a New England Hawkweed. Overall, it was an interesting walk attempting to find observations for each of the 4 main groups of plants.

For this nature walk, I went to the Chestnut Hill Reservoir. It was about 6:30 PM, and it had just stopped raining. It got dark outside significantly earlier than I thought it would, which made it very difficult to find fungi to observe. Due to the recent rain, I observed many slugs on my walk, which was interesting because normally I do not see slugs often at all. In terms of fungi that I was able to observe, I saw many variations of earthballs/ dyeballs scattered across the ground in various areas of the reservoir trail. I had also seen a large amount of lichen on the rocks leading down into the reservoir. Lichen are made from a symbiotic relationship between fungi and algae, and I thought this could be an interesting example of a fungus.

For this nature walk, I went to the pine tree reserve on campus. It was somewhat cloudy outside and a little bit cold, but the weather was overall nice. During the walk, I had walked by many different wild plants and mosses growing on the ground. Some of these plants include ivy growing up a tree, small bushes that are likely Wood Asters that grew thin white flowers, branch moss growing on a rock, woodland sunflowers, and a very textured bush growing in the grass that could be of the genus ampelopsis. The walk lasted from around 1:55 PM to 2:30 PM, and it was very refreshing. Being out in a natural environment is always interesting due to the wide variety of wildlife that is around us at any given time.