Hi!
My phenology spot for this assignment was at Fresh Pond, Cambridge, MA.
Brief comparison of the ecology and phenology of my new place in Cambridge, MA to my place in Centennial Woods in Burlington
I spent some time in my new place, a small clearing in the forest at a local reservoir near where I live called Fresh Pond in Cambridge, MA. As I spent time there, the amount of intact foliage was one of the largest key differences I noticed between my phenology spot in Cambridge and my phenology spot in Burlington. At my last visit to my Burlington phenology location, most deciduous trees were bare, having previously lost most of their leaves. However, in Cambridge, some of the trees had intact leaves just past the peak in foliage. Another thing about the ecology of this place that I noticed was how much more human activity was visible from it than in my phenology place in Burlington. The human activity I noticed varied from seeing carest to the noise pollution of the nearby road to even just headlights from the street just through the forest more people walking through the space. Finally, I saw much more wildlife activity in my phenology place in Cambridge than in Burlington. There were many more visible birds, including geese and ducks, as well as squirrels, than at my phenology place in Burlington. I concluded that this was due to the lack of protected land in the area for the habitats of these animals, resulting in their closer contact with human activities.
