Observations by adambucheister

I saw this squirrel right as I was leaving (actually my friend caught it) and it was a grey squirrel. I saw it running on the ground so I didn't want to identify it as a tree squirrel. It was incredibly fast and I couldn't really get that a good look at it. It was about a foot long, head to tail, maybe a little longer.

I saw this daddy long leg perched on a bush next to me in the woods. There were A LOT of them on the bush. I'm not sure if they travel in groups or are just attracted to the same habitats. It was about an inch long and had a bit of red on its head.

I came upon a giant anthill with these reddish ants scrambling everywhere. I took a video. There must have been thousands of ants. I think they were red ants but I'm not entirely sure.
Hopefully the video comes through.

This is not a picture of the three leaf clover, this is a picture of the other small little clovers? I think they are clovers. They are super small and have these very detailed patterns on their leaves. They look like the three leaf clovers if they were put into a shredder and then put back together.

This is a moss I found on some rocks next to a little waterfall. It looked almost ghostly and very faded. It kind of looked like it was eating away at the rocks. The layer of moss was very thin and did not feel squishy like most mosses. It felt hard.

I am pretty sure that this is a slime mold. It sort of looked like feces. It was right underneath a dying log. It looked like a charred piece of something. It really somehow did look burnt. I think it is a type of a slime mold.

These are a few snails I found under a log. They were light brown and super small. I didn't get a shot of their underbelly because I was scared to to touch them. They all looked to be the same species. What that species is, I could not say.

This was a little plant the sprouted out of the ground near the water. There was really nothing that special about it other than the fact that its stem was pretty thin but it still stuck up at a vertical angle, holding its weight. Pretty impressive.

This plant caught my eye, like that other plant, because of its unique shape. It had a bunch of curves and angles that look random but every single one of the plants have pretty much the same pattern. I always wonder plants have these strange shapes.

Another cabbage - like plant. I've seen this type of plant before. I saw it around UT once. It has a super thick stem that protrudes these giant, thick, old leave outward. The leaves themselves are very grainy.

I think this plant grows flowers in the summertime because I remember seeing something like that. Anyways, the leaves were very glossy, and took up a lot of the plant's volume. Very scrunched together.

OK. So this is a type of plant andI really could not decide which one it is. It is just jutting out of the ground a foot and a half high and has green and yellowish colors to it. Its leaves break the same way grass does.

This leaf was noteworthy because of the shape. It had a strange, almost exaggerated bottle - shape. The leaves looks like they should've been on a tree but they happened to be on a plant. Very unique. I put them in this order because that was the closest thing I could find to something that looked like them.

This plant had small two inch leaves and stems that just sprouted up from the ground and did not really spread. There may have been a flower on top of it but in this weather it is for sure dead. These plants were close to the water and were not invasive.

This tree was also pretty common in Seider Springs. I know it looks like the other tree I am trying to identify but this one just looks older and tougher for some reason. The leaves are glossier and bark is tougher. Also, this trunk is wider.

This little critter was hiding in a log. I wasn't sure whether to call it a bristle worm or a caterpillar. I know that the picture is sort of blurry but it was yellowish, had legs and pointers at the end of its head. It was super small and might be hard to identify.