Fall in Whitewater begins with morning showers on a mostly cloudy day with a high of 60. Sunrise is 6:42 and sunset is 6:52 for 12 hours 10 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 83.1 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1953, the Four Level Interchange, the first stack interchange in the world, opens in Los Angeles.
Four Level Interchange of Arroyo Seco Parkway, Harbor Freeway, Santa Ana Freeway, and Hollywood Freeway, looking northeast in January 1999.
Now, again, fall at last begins. The most intense and demanding of our seasons awaits us. No one is called to an easy task. There is much to do, much to accomplish, between now and December. For today, however, it’s enough to be grateful for the very opportunity.
Below, the simplest of fall’s offerings, the changing of leaves, charted on the Travel Wisconsin2026 Fall Color Map:
Watch highlights as several blue jays empty an entire feeder of peanuts in exactly two hours.
Why do blue jays take so many peanuts? They are extraordinary at “caching” items, hiding food like acorns, nuts, and peanuts in the ground or under leaves to eat later. Because of this, blue jays help with seed dispersal and can actually help build forests! The birds in this video are most likely caching many of the peanuts to eat during the winter.
This FeederWatch cam is located in the Treman Bird Feeding Garden at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, New York. Perched on the edge of both Sapsucker Woods and its 10-acre pond, these feeders attract both forest species like chickadees and woodpeckers as well as some species that prefer open environments near water like red-winged blackbirds.
