Autumn Across America: A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-mile Journey Through the North American Autumn

algae amid animals anthocyanins autumn badlands beautiful beside birds butterflies California Canada geese climbed clouds coast color creatures Creek dark desert drifting edge eelgrass fall feet ferns fish flock Flyway forest fronds green green-winged teal ground grove harvest hawks hibernation inches Indians insects Kirtland's warbler Lake Lake Itasca land leaves light lives looked migration miles Mima mounds monarch butterflies monarchs morning mounds mountain moving nest night northern Olympic Peninsula once Oregon passed pika pines pioneers plants rain reached redwood river road rock rode rolling rose salmon scientists sea anemones sea otter season seeds seen shining side slope snow sometimes species spring squirrel stream stretched summer sunshine Thomas Nuttall trail trees trunks tumbleweeds turned valley wandered warbler watched waterfowl waves weather western white-footed mouse wild wind wings winter wood yellow