For this blog posting I explored the Red Rocks park area in South Burlington, about a 5-10 min drive from the University of Vermont. I had to do a project for another class using iNaturalist, so I thought I would post my findings for this project simultaneously. I really like using the app because it helps me put a name to the things that I see during everyday life. It was also cool to see people in the same area identifying different species and I also thought it was helpful that people could critique another person’s findings. Some of the species I encountered were the common hackberry, bleeding hearts, white pine, white cedars, yellow trout lilies, and mulleins. We also paid attention to the bird species and some of the ones we identified were black-capped chickadees, pileated woodpeckers, northern cardinals, and pine warblers. I think overall this challenge is a really cool opportunity to see what other people experience on a daily basis and how different it is from what I see. An example of something interesting I saw was a picture of a sheep and wild rabbits in Bolivia, which I wasn’t really expecting to see.
City Nature Challenge
