{"id":55,"date":"2023-03-08T16:29:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T21:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/?p=55"},"modified":"2023-03-08T16:29:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T21:29:56","slug":"winter-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/2023\/03\/08\/winter-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">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. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0418-1-edited.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61\" width=\"163\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0418-1-edited.png 725w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0418-1-edited-139x300.png 139w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0418-1-edited-473x1024.png 473w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0418-1-edited-710x1536.png 710w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/files\/2023\/03\/tempImageTUerTc-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57\" width=\"231\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/files\/2023\/03\/tempImageTUerTc-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/files\/2023\/03\/tempImageTUerTc-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/files\/2023\/03\/tempImageTUerTc-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/files\/2023\/03\/tempImageTUerTc-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/files\/2023\/03\/tempImageTUerTc-1568x2091.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/files\/2023\/03\/tempImageTUerTc-scaled.bmp 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/files\/2023\/03\/tempImageeTVWI0-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/files\/2023\/03\/tempImageeTVWI0-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/files\/2023\/03\/tempImageeTVWI0-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/files\/2023\/03\/tempImageeTVWI0-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/files\/2023\/03\/tempImageeTVWI0-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/files\/2023\/03\/tempImageeTVWI0-1568x2091.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/files\/2023\/03\/tempImageeTVWI0-scaled.bmp 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This tree happened to have some short branches low to the ground that I could see, but they didn&#8217;t have any signs of flowers or buds yet. I knew this was a paper birch tree because it had the distinctive white bark that it is known for. The bark was also peeling bark in layers that indicated it was a birch tree. This particular tree had many black spots on it as well. I knew it wasn&#8217;t a yellow or grey birch because of how bright white the color was and how big the pieces of bark that were peeling off of it were. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"473\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0503-473x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0503-473x1024.png 473w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0503-139x300.png 139w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0503-768x1662.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0503-710x1536.png 710w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0503-947x2048.png 947w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0503.png 1284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/2023\/03\/08\/winter-trees\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Winter Trees&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8312,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"bdittman","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/author\/bdittman\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/bdittman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}