Last weekend, the City Nature Challenge on iNaturalist happened here in Burlington! I loved the idea of people worldwide going out and taking pictures of nature in their cities. I happened to go to my phenology spot during the first day of this challenge, so I took photos of many different trees and plants that …
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Last Visit
I returned to Centennial Woods and took a 20-minute hike through the trails. While walking, I thought about how accustomed I have become to the area by visiting this park so many times. As a woman, I often feel scared to hike by myself since I grew up always hiking with my dad. I think …
Tree Updates
For this post, I unfortunately couldn’t make it back to my same phenology spot. As I discussed in my last post, the trail that leads to my tree is completely covered in ice and extremely hard to get to. I also traveled home to Pennsylvania to celebrate Easter with my family, so I didn’t have …
Revisiting My Tree
Today I finally got the chance to revisit my trail. Unfortunately, the trail was covered in ice and very hard to walk on, but I reached my spot. My tree is slightly over a mile deep in Centennial Woods and elevated on a hill. The tree looked to be peeling more than it was before. …
Phenology at Home
While I was home for spring break, I decided to document the phenology of my favorite state park, Moraine. Moraine State Park is located in Western PA, north of Pittsburgh. I walked my dog on a horse path in the woods, near Lake Arthur. This trail went along some grasses and then looped back into …
Winter Trees
Today I went deeper into Centennial woods looking at all the different tree species. I found a Paper Birch tree and decided to document it because it is one of the easiest trees for me to identify. This tree happened to have some short branches low to the ground that I could see, but they …
Wildlife in Centennial
This week, I returned to the same phenology spot I visited in my last post, but with a different goal. As I was walking, I was scouting the trail for any animals or animal signs, like tracks or droppings. Unfortunately, as we’ve had warmer weather recently, much of the snow has melted so finding tracks …
Spring Phenology Spot- Centennial Woods
For this upcoming semester, I decided to change my phenology spot. Although Salmon Hole was quiet interesting, I just couldn’t connect with it. I didn’t feel like I was in nature there, as I could still see buildings all around me. I had trouble traveling to this place and would only spent a few minutes …
Last post of the year
Looking back on my time at Salmon hole, I feel like I’ve learned a lot. Being able to escape off of campus and spend some time outside has been extremely rewarding. Salmon hole is located right outside of Winooski, so I was also able to be able to see another section of Vermont that isn’t …
Wintertime changes
I went back to salmon hole this week just in time to watch the sunset. Going to this same place overtime I noticed many changes to the area. From the foliage, to the water level, to the overall feeling of the place. As you can see, the leaves have almost all fallen off of the …