It seems like this winter wants to stick around for a bit… As we move in to the month of March, snow still covers the ground, buds still are slow to flower, wildlife are still timid to come out and play! As I walk around my site this cold and windy afternoon, I’m excited for what is to come in the next couple of months that we will spend here at school.
To me, this field seems to resemble a floodplain. Its flat surrounded by hills and is right next to Centennial Brook, within the next month I guess that we will see plenty of fresh snowmelt pass through this area and down to the next spot. The willows and red maples tell me that this area is flood tolerant. There haven’t been any real visible changes in the phenology of my place, but I can suspect some big changes are to come!
Here is a picture of my place on a program called biofinder, the green shows that the area is a high priority landscape (meaning it should be preserved), the grayish-blue shows that this area is under high priority for wildlife species.