Field Study #6

Field Study #6 

Date: November 26, 2022

Time: 11:30 

Length of day: 9 hours 49 minutes

Temperature: 52 degrees Fahrenheit 

Weather: Cloudy, slight breeze.

Close up of a deer print left in the mud 

Grass near the creek

Picture of the location

Notes 

Final day, the weather wasn't awful even though it was late November. I was out for half an hour before to sketch my sound map and stayed another fifteen minutes later to finish my sketch. During that time I was able to really take in my surroundings and notice smaller details I overlooked earlier. Because the grass was all flattened, I could easily reach the creek and I found a couple more crayfish holes as well as the deer print in the picture above. 

I have no idea what the round thing growing through the grass is in the fourth picture. At first I thought that it was a seed but the outside was super hard and not all of the grass had the weird growth. My second guess is that it may be a nest of some sort, like there is a creature living inside of it because when I cracked one open it was hollow. When I found the deer print, I wondered whether or not I could find anything else, like maybe a sapling without some bark (the deer eat it) or any scat but I couldn't find anything else. However, earlier that day, my uncle saw a couple deer in the field but when I checked the area out I could not find anything, they probably just passed through.