This semester, I decided to find a new phenology spot! I am a little sad, looking back at my pictures of salmon hole, but I am really excited to get to know centennial woods better. The spot that I eventually settled on was at a location with this latitude and longitude:
44°28’40.8″N 73°11’07.1″W
44.477992, -73.185315
(I could not get a screenshot of google maps to come out looking like anything that made any sense, unfortunately) To get to my site one would follow the main trail down over the bridge and then down along the creek when the path forks. When I got to the area with an incredible number of downed logs, I went up to the right and settled under a small evergreen. By the time I settled on my site it was getting dark and so I did not pay as close attention as I should have and don’t remember the kind of tree that I was settled under. Already in centennial I saw more signs of wildlife activity than I did at Salmon Hole so that was really exciting for me. I saw some deer prints (I think! they were a little old and it was a little dark):
I also saw what might be a collapsed tunnel of some animal that lives in the subnivean zone:
I’m very excited to get to know this new spot, and when I said goodbye to it this week I got to walk into the most beautiful sunset:
