Condition Monitoring Star of the Week, Nov 3 - 10th - Wake County, NC

Our Condition Monitoring Star of the Week was submitted by CoCoRaHS observer with station number NC-WK-6 on November 8th.  We appreciate the observer's diligence in listing the types of species they observed. Their description of the color of water in local pond is also useful for understanding the timing of seasonal changes in water bodies.  We don't receive many of these types of reports but we'd like to! We hope this observer will continue observing changes in these same places in the future so we can have a long-term record of conditions at their location.  Thank you so much NC-WK-6!  Keep up the good work.


Categories 
 
Plants and Wildlife
Water Supply and Quality

Most of the trees in our yard have either dropped the bulk of their leaves completely (river birches), or have turned brilliant colors typical of the season (sugar and red maples, hickory and tulip trees) with the exception of the sycamores who apparently are still unawares the seasons are changing. The sycamores continue to have full green leaves. Despite minimal rainfall in the past week, the other plantings do not show any signs of lack of water. The grass is growing well. The stream and the pond water is black, even blacker than it was last week. This is not due to runoff but appears to be typical of this type of waterway in the fall.