The first set of tracks that I found when revisiting my phenomenology cite were actually not from a wild animal at all but were from someones dog. The tracks seemed to snake around the trees with no clear destination.
All of the rest of the tracks that I observed were from rabbits. When I went to check my phenology cite it had snowed the night before so any tracks would have been made overnight. I was very surprised by the shear number of bunny tracks that there were in the fresh snow, they all seemed to be concentrated within the boarders of the small pine stand with only one set of tracks clearly leaving the Redstone Pines in the direction of the main campus. If I had to guess why there were so many rabbit tracks around I would assume that it was because the Redstone Pines are surrounded by people and buildings on every side. This would provide protection from land dwelling predictors like foxes because those animals like to avoid interaction with humans.
There were not many changes to the trees from the last time I visited due to the fact they are all evergreen. The small shrubs close to the ground were the only ones that lost their leaves and died back. Redstone Pines, as the name would suggest, is entirely pine trees and as such there were no twigs of deciduous trees to observe. I did however sketch the end of a branch on one of the pine trees. All of the needles seemed to be green with very few brown and dead needles leading me to believe that the trees were all quite healthy.
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