Observations by logana

The squirrel had just jumped of the fence in my backyard. It seemed to be in it's young adult stage of life, There was an american raven eyeing it from the top of my maple tree. It's head looked to be 5 inches long, and it seemed to be oval-shaped and pointed down, becoming flat at the mouth. It is a gray color with some dark brown between the eyes and nose, and a light brown color at the eyes. The squirrel has one head, which is aerodynamic and contains over 22 teeth. It's body looked to be 1-2 feet long when it was on the ground , and it looked to be smooth, slim, and cylinder like. It looked to be light gray in color, mixed with light brown and a hint of red. The gray squirrel had one body that when extended in full bound, looked to be 3 feet in length. The arms looked to be 2 inches in length and were long, pyramidical, and very narrow at the feet. The arms were dark gray at the top and becoming a lighter gray near the base, and the arms had a white underside. The squirrel had 2 arms, which even though they only have four toes each, this gives the squirrel the ability to climb head first down the tree, and the ability to easily grab food. The legs were 2 inches long, and were very thick, and circular like. The legs were dark grey, with spots of red, brown, and black near the feet. The squirrel had 2 legs, and there were 5 toes on each of them. The eastern gray squirrel can rotate it's legs and feet back so that it can, without any issue, move freely headfirst down any tree.

The yew tree looks to be in the adult stage of life. There is a really bulky Cardinal eating the last of the berries in the tree, the cardinal is sitting on the uppermost branches of the tree. The leaves of the tree are 2 1/2 inches long and 3 millimeters wide, they are narrow, oval, and tapering to a point. The color of the leaves is dark green, which gets lighter near the base. There are 38 of these leaves attached to one branch and they give a pleasant aroma that reminds you of pine trees. The stem can vary between 6 inches to a foot in length, and are about as wide as the fingernail of my forefinger. The stem is cylinder shaped with bumps going up and down the stem, and it is a light brown where the leaves are attached and then it becomes a dark brown around the base. There are usually 7 to 20 stems on a single branch, and the stems are so stringy that they are used to make yew longbows. The berry is half an inch long and half an inch wide, also, the shape of the berry is circular, with a slight incline where the seed is. The berry is a darker red color and the seed is dark green, and there can usually be 15 berries on a single stem. The berries special features are that it can be eaten once the seed is removed. The cone of the tree is 4-7 millimeters long, and it is a rough, cupcake shape with a pointed bottom. The seed is a dark yellow with a light green bottom, and the shell is a tan color, as well as, there are usually around 20 seed cones on a stem. Once the seeds have matured, they break away to reveal the so called "snot" berries with the seed in the middle.

The leaf was 2 1/2 inches long and 3 millimeters wide. The leaf was narrow, oval, and tapering to a point. It was dark green with a lighter green color near the base, and there was 7 to 20 stems on the single branch.

There are lots of spiders, beetles/ and other types of bugs in the vines on the tree, and in the nests. The tree is in it's adult stage of growth, and it's has dropped all of it's leaves to the ground. It's animal-plant interaction is nice, and you can tell that there are squirrels, opossums, and raccoons living in it.

They were playing on the fence in my backyard. They looked to be in their young adult stage of life. They both seemed to have food in their mouthes, most likely acorns. About an hour later they were out again looking for food and playing around, and they continued this for at least a couple hours.