How my site has changed over time – In the winter my site used to be dead quiet, there was lots of snow on the ground and it overall felt very dormant. Now, everything is beginning to bloom and come back to life, the birds are chirping and the stream is babbling. The winter storms …

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Changes I observed:

Changes I observed

Why it’s actually a northern red oak: I distinguished this tree from being a white oak because it has pointed, rather than round, lobes. It is not a maple because its leaves are too long and narrow. It’s not a cottonwood because they have very different shaped leaves and when the two are compared one …

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I visited Centennial Woods and I took photos of any tracks I saw during my day to day on campus. Using the iNaturalist app was fairly easy and self-explanatory. I like that we are forced to use iNaturalist because I don’t think I would otherwise have participated in the City Nature Challenge, which I think …

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Wildlife observations: It was pretty hard to spot wildlife activity because it has been snowing on and off for the last couple of days and the wind has been blowing the snow around, covering up places where animal tracks might be. I did find a lot of dog tracks, since I think Centennial Woods is …

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How my spot has changed since November 7th: What I enjoy most about my spot: I like that this area feels very cozy but also vast. It’s situated just before the tip of Rock Point, where Lake Champlain meets the land, so it feels a bit sheltered, but you can also tell that you’re right …

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This place is special because it’s in a pretty busy and high-traffic part of DC, yet you can’t hear much of the human world when you’re in the woods. You can occasionally hear some planes and today I heard some construction going on in the distance, but for the most part, you can’t hear cars …

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Observations during my fifteen minutes of silence: The trees are swaying lightly in the wind  The sky is a light blue and the clouds are moving pretty fast  I can see the sun through the trees The ground under me feels cold and the dead grass feels rough against my legs I can hear the …

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