{"id":42,"date":"2024-02-19T16:49:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T21:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/elitton\/?p=42"},"modified":"2024-02-19T16:49:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T21:49:42","slug":"phenology-2-wildlife-in-burlington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/elitton\/2024\/02\/19\/phenology-2-wildlife-in-burlington\/","title":{"rendered":"Phenology 2 – Wildlife in Burlington!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I went on the Island Line Bike Trail in Burlington out by Leddy Park. I walked for about 1.5 miles for a 3-mile round trip on Sunday, February 18. It was about 28\u00b0F but the wind was strong at 17.4 mph, which made it feel much colder. I encountered a lot of fresh snow from the night before and partly cloudy skies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The majority of tracks on the trail were human and domestic dog, but there were lots of wild animal tracks running parallel or perpendicular across the bike path. My experience with iNaturalist was good, it was easy to pinpoint my location from the coordinates saved with the image, which made uploading the images when I had service easy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first tracks I saw I hypothesized to be grey squirrel tracks. I saw many squirrels active in the area, I observed the bounding gait pattern in the tracks, many tracks led up to trees and stopped there as the squirrels climbed the trees. As shown below, the tracks stopped at the foot of a tree. Also, the area was mostly deciduous oaks and maples, which are characteristic of grey squirrel habitats so I was able to choose the grey squirrel over the red one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The second tracks I saw I hypothesized were snowshoe hares. I mostly used the fact that the back feet were much larger than the front feet and the size was accurate for a snowshoe hare. Also, iNaturalist suggested that those animals were very active in that area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I went on the Island Line Bike Trail in Burlington out by Leddy Park. I walked for about 1.5 miles for a 3-mile round trip on Sunday, February 18. It was about 28\u00b0F but the wind was strong at 17.4 mph, which made it feel much colder. I encountered a lot of fresh snow from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"elitton","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/elitton\/author\/elitton\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/elitton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/elitton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/elitton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/elitton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/elitton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/elitton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/elitton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/elitton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/elitton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/elitton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}