Phenology walk!
On the snowy, snowy day of Sunday, March 30th, I set out with a small group of friends to do the Phenology walk. Saturday had brought lots of snow so we were trudging through a good few inches of it. We set out around 10:00am, and it was cloudy and vaguely raining.
Since we went early on in the season, we really didn’t see lots of signs of spring in any of the trees. Only one tree had a few buds breaking, there were no new leaves growing, no flowers, and no pollen. All of the trees were basically in the same phenophase, except for the Red Maple #280, which had a good amount of breaking leaf buds.
As someone who has never really experienced a true transition from a real Winter to Spring, something I Iearned from the NPN’s website was that just because there is an early start to the spring doesn’t mean everything will follow just as quickly.
I tried to attach pictures of the trees we saw, but my computer was not letting me. I will keep trying but for photos of what the trees looked like on this day, you can check out my friend Rayna’s blog here: https://blog.uvm.edu/rlherman/ !
