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Today I walked around the Webster Woods/Hammond Pond area for my nature walk. It was a little damp in the woods from the rain and the temperature was around 60 degrees. I went for my nature walk here a couple of weeks ago so I tried to explore new places in the woods and went in the opposite direction I went last time. The first thing I saw were two berries hanging from a branch, this was my angiosperm plant. When I saw the ferns I looked under the leaves to see if there were any homospory like we discussed in class but I didn't see any, probably because it was the season for it. The moss I found was at the bottom of a tree and looked damp. This finding is similar to what I would have expected because we learned in class that moss (bryophyte) is found in low-damp forests because they struggle with the effects of gravity.

Today I decided to go beyond the BC campus and walk over to Hammond Pond in Newton. When I first arrived I saw some fungus on the trees and rocks that were green. I saw a body of water that was connected to a standing river that weaved around the whole trail. I wandered around for a while and found it difficult to find any fungus other than the green fungus until I started to look under the brush on the sides of the trial. There, I found many mushrooms and sticks with fungus growing on them. All of the different fungi I saw differed in shape, size, and color, showing high biodiversity. As previously stated, I saw the same looking fungus on both trees and rocks, maybe this could be a cause of speciation through sympatric speciation because they both inhabit the same area but are separated by the tree or rock they grow on. The sympatric speciation event might cause a predominate rock-favoring and or tree-favoring population to split off and form a new species.

I walked around the trail next to the Recreation center for 30 minutes. It was a little cold but not too bad about 50 degrees which I don't mind. I noticed this trail a couple of weeks ago but I haven’t had time to check them out because I have been so busy. When I first got there I noticed a wide range of different plant species. I saw a couple of bees and tried to get a picture of them but they always flew away and made the picture blurry. As I walked around I could hear a couple of different bird calls but I didn't see any birds in the trees. The walk was peaceful and there were a couple of benches to sit at which was nice. I plan on coming back to this spot later to sit at a bench and do homework or just relax.