My last visit to my phenology spot felt very full circle. The leaves have started coming back, there are some flowers, and there were plenty of birds. I’m very glad to have had the opportunity to see Salmon Hole in every season and track the changes throughout the year. Sitting in my spot during my …
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City Nature Challenge BioBlitz
First, I went back to Oakledge park and explored off the path near the lake. There was a lot of brown algae on the rocks near the shore (that I struggled to take pictures of). I also noticed some budding on nearby trees including honeysuckle, but some trees still had no signs of budding. The …
Phenology Assignment- the greater Burlington area
For this assignment, I walked to Centennial woods and found various tracks there and some on the way as well. I surprisingly didn’t find any scat or nests, but I did see two different squirrels running, but I couldn’t catch them on camera. I liked using the INaturalist app to organize all my observations, but …
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January Visit
I went back to Salmon Hole Park for the first time since break and it is now covered in snow. I was able to find some animal tracks that I am not very sure what they are, but I am assuming they are some sort of small animal (possibly a squirrel or skunk??). Most of …
December Phenology Visit
It was a great opportunity to visit Salmon Hole after the one of the first snows of the season. During the last visit, there were some trees left with leaves, but this time there were none left except for the fruit of bittersweets (there were quite a few bittersweets around my spot that still had …
NJ Phenology Spot
This spot is behind a family member’s house in Neptune, New Jersey, and borders a small lake. I think this area is beautiful and I enjoyed observing it on a deeper level for this post. The bigger trees consisted of spruce and oak, and many had a lot of ivy growing up them. The leaves …
Bird’s eye view map
Update
After coming back to my phenology place again about 2 weeks later, most of the trees have no leaves left. However, there were still a few Sugar Maples that seemed to have almost all of their leaves left, and a basswood that had quite a few left. All the bittersweet that previously wrapped around other …
Video of place:
http://blog.uvm.edu/aproske/files/2024/10/IMG_1426-2.mov
Most common species found
sugar maple, red maple, silver maple, buckthorn, bittersweets