During spring break, I chose a park down the street from my house that sits on a beach as my phenology site. While there, I explored many different natural communities that the park has to offer, including mudflats, swamps, wooded areas, fields, and the actual beach area itself. While there, I saw quite a few bird species including Ospreys, Seagulls, Canada Geese, and Sparrows. The park has a designated bird-watching area, with various feeders located in the center of a clearing in the heart of a grove of Holly trees. When I was younger, I’d always go to the birdwatching area with my grandma and spend the day tallying up the birds that we saw and picking our favorites. I always loved the Cardinals, their bright red wings standing out amongst the dark green of the holly trees. In 1959, Mr. and Mrs. Kitchel donated 21 different species of holly to the town of Greenwich which began the cultivation of the Holly Grove, and in 2016 the Friends of Greenwich Point began an extremely successful restoration of the grove which included clearing dead brush, trimming trees, and planting new hollies. Tod, the original owner of Greenwich Point Park, considered himself a naturalist and built Eagle pond as a bird sanctuary, an area that is now populated by swans, pelicans, and ducks. A family of ospreys also build a stick nest on top of the eagle statue that sits in the middle of the pond every year, a location that gives them a 360º view of any approaching threats. Various investigations were conducted around Eagle Pond that revealed ceramics that date back to the Woodland Period (1000 BCE to 1000 CE). All around the park, Crocus flowers were in bloom, with an abundance of yellow Crocuses near the entrance and purple scatered throughout the rest of the park. Turkey tail mushrooms could also be spotted growing on logs throughout the park, and a dried Jimsonweed plant growing out of some rocks near the sand particularly caught my eye. The weekend that I visited the park was quite warm, and there were many hints of spring beginning to emerge.