The End....

I learned that nature can only be experienced first hand. A picture of the most beautiful mountains cannot compare to you being in a plain field. Also, the beauty of the plot as it change over the last few weeks was awe-inspiring.  I learned how beautiful the change of the seasons can be, how many different organisms there are on my plot, how those organisms react together, how cool a normal leaf looks under a microscope, and how anything can be art. I will use these to look at the world and life differently, and to further the kingdom of God by protecting his amazing creation.

Seasonal changes

Top pic: 9/9. Nice, green forest, but by the looks of it, some of the trees
are dead.
Next pic: 9/14. Nothing much has changed since last week, but a couple trees are starting to change.





9/22. More leaves are changing, but there is still some green out there.

9/27. Nothing has changed from last week, save for that a tree fell down. 

10/7. Finally, almost all the leaves have changed. It sure took awhile.







10/15. It's really weird. All the leaves are gone on the place I took my pictures, but in other places there are still green leaves.

My Food Web

Here's my food web. To understand it, you need this key:
Black= Decomposer
Green= Producer
Blue= Herbivore
Purple= Omnivore
Red= Carnivore

Brown= Detritivores

Biodiversity

OK, without further adieu,  my great weed collection!!

Clover (Trifolium repens)

Lamb's Ear (Stachys byzantina)








Wild Wheat (Triticum monococcum)







 

 Wild Raspberry (Rubus canadensis)

Ivy (Hedera colchica)

The Plot Community

Here are some interactions in my community:
Competition: Birds fighting over berries.
                      Deer scavenging for grass.
Predation: Hawks and song birds.
                  Human and deer.
Mutualism: Bush and birds.
                   Deer and raspberries.
Communalism: Burr and deer.
                        
Parasitism: Tick and deer.
                   Heart-worm and coyote.

Taking Action

OK, so I was picking up the trash and didn't realize that you needed a pic of the bag of trash (I had already thrown out the trash before I realized this). I just took pics of the individual pieces of trash. So, because there was a good amount of trash, I whittled it down to just a couple. So, here they are:

And here's my plot after me picking up the trash:

Biotic or Abiotic?

Here's 20 different things on my plot:
Squirrels-biotic
Oak Tree-biotic
Pine Tree-biotic
 Rocks-abiotic
Water-abiotic
Sand-abiotic
Old Metal-abiotic
Lots of Leaves-biotic
Deer-biotic
Turkeys-biotic
Woodpeckers-biotic
Songbirds-biotic
Trash-abiotic
Grasses-biotic
Burrs-biotic
Wild Blackberries-biotic
Dead Branches-biotic
Snakes-biotic
Hawks-biotic
Bard Owl-biotic