Welcome to my new phenology spot! Over Thanksgiving break I returned home to Maine and chose a new spot in the woods behind my camp.
I was lucky enough to be able to visit my new spot just after the first big snowstorm of the season. It was so nice to see the trees and ground covered in snow, and it created a nice contrast with my spot in Burlington. The two sites share many similarities. They are both in beautiful forest stands with a stream running by. Both are dominated by hardwoods, with some conifers mixed in. The new site specifically has many young trees, a majority of which are white pine and hemlock. The new site also has much more human activity in and around it. There is a bridge over the stream, and the water runs through a culvert under a road nearby. The site is surrounded on two sides by roads, and by a house on another. There is also an old wire fence that stretches between a number of the trees.
