Unravelling

  This week I made only two trips to the soccer field. One of my observations was used in my last blog since I had no other observations for the prior week. Thanks to this I made sure to observe everything as closely as I could in order to jot down everything and anything that caught my eye.
  This being said I (once again) noticed the fallen leaves all over the field and the exact same question popped into my head "where do these come from?" I took a lap around the entire field hoping to find a hidden tree releasing all of these leaves, sadly I had no success and really gave up trying. This time unlike the others I picked up some of the leaves in order to classify them as coming from the same tree or not. There were two types of leaves: a brown, widely spread and a burgundy small crunched up leaf. This helped me realize that there are two trees providing the field with these leaves. Perhaps the trees across the street. 
   Remember those mysterious white feathers that appeared on the field and suddenly disappeared a week later? They're back.
   As I was looking around for a tree to my leaves I was surprised by not one but four white feathers (not exact but somewhat similar to those in my field notes from October 6th) just sitting so calmly on the dead grass. So I picked one up. Went home and did some research. It was sort of difficult to find a website that helped me narrow down my bird options since I had not seen the bird and only had it's white feather as guidance. I did some research that isn't very convincing (speaking for myself)  but regardless came up with a bird species. 

     My result was a Western Gull. Although I have not seen these birds at the field, I am sure I've seen them around town. I have not been to the field in quite some time so I have not been able to confirm this but will definitely go out there soon and do so. 

                                                                      Works Cited

Picture: Pickering, Phil. "Herring Gull vs. Western Gull." Herring Gull vs. Western Gull. Greg Gillson, 2000. Web. 30 Nov. 2014.

"What Was the SIZE of the White Gull-like Bird You Saw in Nevada?" Identify a Gull-like               Bird Seen in Nevada by Size. Mitch Waite Group, 2005. Web. 17 Nov. 2014.