{"id":46,"date":"2024-02-20T21:07:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T02:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/adspecto\/?p=46"},"modified":"2024-02-20T21:07:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T02:07:53","slug":"a-look-at-somewhere-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/adspecto\/2024\/02\/20\/a-look-at-somewhere-new\/","title":{"rendered":"A look at somewhere… new?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For this adventure, I was tasked with exploring another location to identify the markings of an animal. For my location, I decided to take another exploration of Centennial Woods. While I have been to the Centennial Woods Natural Area a few times for my NR-1020 class, I figured that I could find a way to make the area new to me. This time, I was able to explore some of the other trails, and see the environment with snow cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slight side-tangent before I get into the tracking: While I was walking, I was so struck at just how beautiful the forest scenery was in the snow. Being from Maryland, I did not have snow cover on the ground nearly as much, and when I did, I tended to take advantage of the limited snow cover by sledding instead of exploring the woods, so seeing snow in nature is still pretty new to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Look how beautiful this is! how could you hate it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another thing about the snow that always amazes me is that it can keep a log of the population of critters that have passed by. When I first started tracking this semester, I always neglected squirrels, but tracking them has grown on me a lot. They are a very familiar animal to me, so I spent most of the time in Centennial Woods tracking a singular squirrel on his journey. Squirrels were some of the only animal tracks that I found, which I assumed was because the presence of humans and dogs scared many larger animals away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I tracked our furry friend for around 300 ft, which was a surprisingly long distance for a squirrel. It would stop every 10-20 feet or so where it would then dig up a pile of snow. I assumed that this was the squirrel searching for spots that it buried nuts or acorns during the summer and fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s one of the dug-up areas that I saw along the squirrel’s path. I found it so interesting that I could look at the ground and see a story of an animal’s life. This squirrel hopped over fallen trees, crossed paths, and avoided danger all to survive and get food during the winter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While exploring the rest of the trails at Centennial Woods, I really thought it was interesting that, no matter how close I was to a trail that I knew, the space still felt brand new to me. I hope that we see more snowfall this season, as I cannot wait to see what other tracking signs I may see this season! That’s all for now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For this adventure, I was tasked with exploring another location to identify the markings of an animal. For my location, I decided to take another exploration of Centennial Woods. While I have been to the Centennial Woods Natural Area a few times for my NR-1020 class, I figured that I could find a way to … <\/p>\n

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