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Where I went<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I had the rare privilege of getting to observe species in three different cities during this city nature challenge. On Friday I was home in Philly and observed some beautiful flowers at my home. Spring is in full force in Philly. On Saturday evening and Sunday morning I was in New York City, and then on Sunday afternoon I returned to Burlington and made some observations here. Since I was traveling so much during the weekend I did not have as much time to make a lot of observations as I would’ve hoped, but I think the diversity of places I got to observe in made up for the lesser quantity of observations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Home<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I live in New Jersey right outside of Philly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Google Earth aerial view<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wider scale image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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I observed many beautiful flowers while home, some of which are seen in the images below. I also heard lots of birds, but didn’t manage to get any pictures sadly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hydrangea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Azalea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Burlington<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Burlington is my home away from home, and although I didn’t have much time to observe when I returned Sunday, I did make some observations in the area by my dorm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Broadleaf Cattail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Serviceberries<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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iNaturalist Experience and Worldwide City Nature Challenge<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I found iNaturalist very intuitive and easy to use. I had been using the app for years, but I had no idea about the City Nature Challenge until this year. I will definitely be using iNaturalist to participate in future years. I like that other people can help you to identify species that you are unsure about, it is a great tool for learning to identify more species. I also loved using the app to see species observed in other areas of the world, as well as following the CNC leaderboard for cities around the world. I feel like so many cities could do so much more if the CNC was more widely publicized. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Where I went I had the rare privilege of getting to observe species in three different cities during this city nature challenge. On Friday I was home in Philly and observed some beautiful flowers at my home. Spring is in full force in Philly. On Saturday evening and Sunday morning I was in New York … Continue reading City Nature Challenge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8243,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"aehaas","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aehaas\/author\/aehaas\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aehaas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aehaas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aehaas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aehaas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aehaas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aehaas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aehaas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aehaas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aehaas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aehaas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}