Fall approaches!

[Woodcock survey]

Stan i think i have found a reason for the golden sunlight. For years i have seen this about the 15 th of august and read that about then the sun went below the equator and did not return until the next year. The suns rays then pass through a lot more atmosphere giving the dispersion that causes the change in the way we perceive the light. I imagine the latitude where you are will effect the timing of this. I am in Mass. so a lot further north than you are therefor earlier.

[John Davis]

Fall still feels like a long way off in south Georgia.

[Phil C]

Fall also seems like a long way off in AZ.

[Lloyd McKissick]

I worked on a big project in Phoenix at Sky Harbour for several years in the early 2000s (had an office/apartment down there for the last year). Those "hellish" temperatures absolutely changed me, because elk hunting in 10-below zero in December here never used to bother me...but it certainly does now.

Speaking of slanting light...





This was the very last day for me up there in 2024, an early afternoon hunt on October the 31st.

My very last bird of the season...



with it's crop examined, birch leaves, buds and seeds



You hear people talk about "drumming logs" in the grouse woods (?), well here is a stellar example.



It snowed hard there two days after this, but I was on the road home to Denver.

[Dean Romig]

The old drumming logs I’ve found in my VT NEK covers were surrounded by piles of many seasons of grouse droppings.
Yours is on its way to being such a monument to ‘grousedom’!





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[Lloyd McKissick]

It is all about this guy, after all...

[Lloyd McKissick]

Mr. Gordon is correct, that wonderful lighting even works out here in the dry, open West. Late November, 3 or 4 years ago, ~6AM in NW Colorado, chasing elk.




and 1st light earlier that week



After my long autumn in Minnesota this is always something of a shock to the system. Still great fun but...very different.



Well...maybe not.