Phenology of Burlington
For my exploration of Burlington Phenology, I started at campus and began to walk toward Church St, with no real direction to where I wanted to end up. Walking for a while, I paid close attention to the ground, and any possible signs of wildlife. I saw a few birds (of which I could identify: a robin and a cardinal), and some gray squirrel tracks in the snow (I eventually saw another gray squirrel further down the road on my walk). I didn’t see as much wildlife in Burlington as I would have liked, but I didn’t have time to wander around the city for hours.
I saw the birds’ bright colors when they were sitting in their own respective trees, so I was quickly able to identify them but I still looked at iNaturalist to confirm that other people had also seen these birds nearby. As for the squirrel tracks, I saw them in the snow leading up to a tree. It was snowing, but the tracks weren’t fully covered, so they must have been relatively fresh. I couldn’t tell at first what kind of squirrel made the tracks, so I took out my pocket guide to check. Each track had four distinct places where the paws were, with two smaller ones and two larger ones. The larger ones were about 7 cm long and were spread out, so my guess is that the squirrel was running to get up the tree.