{"id":185,"date":"2022-02-23T23:13:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T04:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/adwaltonphenologyproject\/?p=185"},"modified":"2022-02-23T23:38:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T04:38:11","slug":"wildlife-signs-in-burlington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/adwaltonphenologyproject\/2022\/02\/23\/wildlife-signs-in-burlington\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife Signs in Burlington"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

February 21st, 2022 (44\u00b0)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Today I took a walk within the city of Burlington and my phenology site. It has certainly been an odd week temperature-wise. Recently we’ve seen temperatures up to 54\u00b0 in February! Now that’s alarming, to say the least. As I went out into the wild to look for signs of animal tracks I was unfortunately met with minimal dirty snow. But just like any other good naturalist, I carried on and used other tactics to uncover signs of life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The entirety of my walk downtown consisted of finding zero animal sightings or tracks. Thankfully it was a nice day out and I enjoyed the spring-like walk. It wasn’t until I got to my phenology site that I found signs of life. In the mud, I saw many human-made footsteps, along with domestic dog prints. Although I expected these to be here, as the site is a frequently used passing through path, it was still interesting to see how detailed the prints stayed in the mud. There was a collage of monochromed brown leaves on the forest floor that were most likely fossiled by the snow from the previous fall. As I continued to walk I came across a hole in a fallen tree that was obviously burrowed by some sort of animal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n