Salmon Hole Phenology

It is with great sadness that I visit my phenology spot for the last time this semester. I know I will be back, but to miss the changes this spot will go through in the next four months is sad to think about. My visit this week was one of the best, with all the […]

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The fiddleheads are everywhere!!! It’s just a week after I visited my spot in late April, and the growth in the first week of May has been rapid. These little guys are erupting from the flood plain soil everywhere I turn.

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Not a lot of the trees have budded yet, but the ones that are are mostly Boxelders, and their long green buds are growing pretty quickly as we approach early May!

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The forest floor here at the Winooski River by Salmon Hole has yet to start sprouting flowers and most vegetation is covered in mud from all of the flooding. I did however notice some small growth in certain areas; grass poking through leaf litter and mud, small cluster of ferns emerging through leaf litter, and […]

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Fairfield beaches are much different than most environments in Burlington, Vermont. After immersing myself in my favorite beach in Fairfield, Connecticut for at least an hour, I was able to notice things about the natural environment that I had never thought about prior to this visit.  I walked up and down the small strip of […]

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This spot on the Winooski River may seem like a wetland community from afar, however even though it is part of the Burlington watershed it is most definitely closer to a woodland community than a wetland community. The reason I believe this is due to the landform that surrounds my spot. Although it rests on […]

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My first visit back to Salmon Hole this year was incredibly beautiful. The first February thaw had just begun and the river was echoing with the melting of the ice around the river bank. Snow is melting, damp tree trunks are rotting, growing mushrooms in the cold. Puddles form around trees where the soil has […]

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This is the twig of a Basswood tree This is the twig of a Boxelder maple tree This is the twig of a Green ash tree These three twigs are a good representation of the trees that surround this cite on the bank of Salmon Hole on the Winooski river. This is a sketch of […]

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Today, on February 4, 2019, I visited my Salmon Hole Phenology place for the first time since December. This was the warmest day we have seen in weeks, reaching temperatures of high 40’s, and the wildlife certainly seemed to be enjoying it! All throughout my spot were these large galloper’s tracks which I have inferred […]

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Salmon Hole is known to be highly populated with beavers and my last visit confirmed this for me! As I traveled a little further down the river from my phenology spot, I noticed the beginning of a dam being formed by the waters edge. Drift wood was floating away from the structure which made me […]

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