April 26, 2024 Last Sunday, I joined the tens of thousands of participants around the world in the City Nature Challenge. Started in California in 2016, this now global annual encourages people in cities worldwide to find and document local wildlife. From April 25th to April 28th, the goal is to take as many photos …
Monthly Archives: April 2025
Nature’s Notebook Phenology Walk
April 26, 2025 2:15 pm This weekend I participated in the USA National Phenology Network’s Nature’s Notebook program by logging observations of the phenological changes of trees on UVM’s campus. The National Phenology Network (NPN) is an organization that works on a national scale to collect, organize, and interpret phenological data. Organisms go through annual …
April Visit
April 19, 2025 5:26pm I spent some time in Centennial Woods last week following the brook to look for frogs. Stopping by my phenology site, I saw it had completely transformed since my last visit. It was raining heavily for much of the time I was there, and the stream was flowing fast. While I …