These wonderful, beautiful fall days inspire me to go outside. I want to walk and crunch leaves beneath my feet. It is hard to walk quietly on the dry leaves. Each step, each crunch, echoes throughout the forest.
As I stopped to taken in the beauty of the forest, an empty bench was my only companion.
An amphitheater made of big boulders. Perhaps, the site of a council of the animals, as they discuss the humans and how we lost our way. And how to help us find our way back home.
Nature Calendar November 2019
October 31 – November 1 – Halloween and All Soul’s Eve. The Harvest Season Ends
November 3 – Daylight Savings Time Ends
November 4 – First Quarter Moon
November 12 – Full Beaver Moon, Full Frost Moon
November 19 – Last Quarter Moon
November 26 – New Moon
What to Observe Right Now
Birds – Winter residents begin arriving, last of raptors migrate
Flowers – The last of the goldenrods and asters bloom, dried flower stalks, and seed heads
Insects – The last of the bees, wasps, gnats, flies, and milkweed bugs
Animals – chipmunks are still active here in Philly
- Black Bears are heading to their winter dens and entering torpor
- Lobsters move to offshore waters
- Best fishing 1st through 12th, 26th through 30th
In the Night Sky
- New Moon always rises near sunrise
- First Quarter rises near noon
- Full Moon always rises near sunset
- Last Quarter rises near midnight
- Moonrise occurs about 50 minutes later each day
- Watching the circumpolar stars
What to Photograph and Draw Right Now
- fall berries
- acorns
- frost on grass and leaves
- mist rising from ponds, lakes, and rivers
Taking Autumn Photographs
- taking photographs on overcast days heightens the colors
- take photographs while standing in the shade, use cloudy white balance setting
- use the foliage setting on your point-and-shoot camera
- use the landscape mode to take landscape scenes
Citizen Science
- Project FeederWatch begins at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology – starts November 9, 2019
- Western Monarch Thanksgiving Count, October to March on West Coast of U.S. – November 16 – December 18, 2019
2019 Nature Almanacs
Nature Almanac: September 2019