Pink yarrow.
In cold weather the crows gather in hundreds to spend the night in a single tree (or in a few neighboring trees). In the late afternoon you can watch them overhead, dozens or hundreds of them, all heading in the same direction. The weather was still warm in early fall, but they were gathering for the night on September 29, 2017.
I don't know why they gather. When I've seen multitudes of crows in a tree, they've not been huddled together. It was early evening (several years ago) when I was nearby as they settled into a tree. Maybe they huddle in the deep dark middle of a frigid winter night?
I've watched them in the afternoon, choosing a tree. One will stand in the top of a tree, cawing. Others will stand in other trees, cawing. Others will wheel through the sky, trying one tree and another. Somehow, they all end up very near each other for the night.
I wonder how the decision is made............ I wonder who gets a vote........... I expect that, as with humans, some are more likely to strike out on their own and make suggestions as to what to do, and others are willing to go where everyone else goes.............
The same pumpkins we've been watching. The plant's leaves have given up the ghost.
(Editing these pics in February -- I am enjoying soaking in all of this color!)
These Michigan pics don't require nearly as much editing as the pics from the southwest, but I still am editing essentially every pic to one degree or another. Crop some distracting branches out of this one, photoshop out some distracting dirt or shadows or whatever.
Lighten the ones that were exposed for the sky to the extent the ground is all dark..................
The next image was cropped out of the previous one, and lightened so we can see the park at dusk. See the moon in the upper right corner?
The next one lost some distracting foliage in the upper left quadrant, and was lightened so we can see the road.
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