17 - Flocks of both American robins and cedar waxwings feed on crabapple fruit. Sod is still being cut and put down for lawns. Fresh pocket gopher mounds in Brooklyn Park. Mosses in the forests are lush green on this mild, wet day. The rutting season of the white-tailed deer reaches its peak during the last two weeks of November.
Gray squirrels work on their leafy nests.
20 - Lake Waconia steaming this morning. Ponds frozen over again. Landscape evergreens such as pines, spruces, firs, yews, and hemlocks add much interest to the mid-November landscape. 21 - Golfers out on some Twin Cities courses today. Juncos are the most common of the birdfeeder birds at many stations.