{"id":50,"date":"2024-03-24T20:43:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T00:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/elitton\/?p=50"},"modified":"2024-03-24T20:43:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T00:43:46","slug":"phenology-3-early-signs-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/elitton\/2024\/03\/24\/phenology-3-early-signs-of-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Phenology 3 – Early Signs of Spring!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I returned to my original phenology spot at the bunker in Centennial Woods this Sunday afternoon (March 24). It was about 25\u00b0F outside but since it was so sunny, it felt more like 35-40\u00b0F and I was sweating a bit while walking to and from my site. It had snowed almost a foot the day before, and there was around six inches of fresh snow on the ground all throughout Centennial Woods. The brook was not frozen, though, so the water was still flowing and the snow was beginning to melt in the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The sun was shining directly through the trees, and the weather app predicted temperatures in the 40-50 range this coming week, so this snow will likely melt and give way to mud soon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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There were few tracks in the snow other than human and domestic dog, but I did find these interesting patterns, which could also have been from melting snow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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These buds on a paper birch were the ones that I found at my site that seemed most prominent. It was hard to imagine signs of spring in such snowy conditions, but these buds were indicative that spring and a return of green forests is imminent.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I recognized the birdsong of chickadees (my home state’s state bird!) and I saw a few gray squirrels running between the trees, but it was a relatively quiet afternoon in Centennial Woods save for a plethora of NR1020 students out and about to complete their assignments. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I returned to my original phenology spot at the bunker in Centennial Woods this Sunday afternoon (March 24). It was about 25\u00b0F outside but since it was so sunny, it felt more like 35-40\u00b0F and I was sweating a bit while walking to and from my site. It had snowed almost a foot the day […]<\/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-50","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\/50","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=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/elitton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/elitton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/elitton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/elitton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/elitton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}