23 - Sulphur and cabbage butterflies active. YellowJackets come to our picnics. Bittersweet vines have lost their leaves but have very attractive clusters of bright orange fruit. Sugar maples in Northfield continue to show colorful foliage. Some eastern chipmunks still above ground and actively gathering food to store.
American goldfinches are in their somber winter dress, looking mostly brownish.
25 - Some sugar maples still holding colorful foliage. Leopard frogs on the move. Ginkgo trees in St. Peter have golden-yellow foliage. 26 - Migrating American robins are eating crabapple fruit. Deciduous forests quite bare.