This semester I have gotten to see my Phenology spot go through each season, examining everything from the smallest prints in the snow to the first emerging leaves. I have gained a connection to the peace of my spot, the familiarity and comfortability, so this Saturday to celebrate the warming weather I went for a …
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iNaturalist BioBlitz
This weekend I had time to explore around campus with the iNatualist app, mainly I identified species I could ID off sight, with the help of my field guide. I traversed the woods between redstone campus, athletic fields and the Burlington country club, this mixed deciduous forest includes a small pond with a gravel bank. …
Phenology Walk Day
I spent an hour this Sunday April 27th walking around campus and collecting phenological data on five specific trees around campus. The first tree I visited was the Red Oak off main street, tagged 615, the buds had just begun to burst out of their protective shell, just beginning to change for spring. The second …
Wildlife in the greater Burlington area
Over this week I got to explore more of the Burlington area and travel to the Intervale center for lab as well as cross country skiing around and outside of campus. Visiting the Intervale center after fresh snow allowed the opportunity to identify more species tracks that might not be so common in Burlington proper. …
A Fresh Year of Tracks
The new year has brought fresh snow and fresh tracks for me to study. I have identified these tracks as those of an Eastern Cottontail Rabbit. The tracks aren’t the only change I’ve seen, as there seems to be no remaining leaves in the hardwoods and decomposition has taken affect in the subnivean zone. There …
The First Snow
This is the first snow I have seen in my phenology spot, and at this point winter is almost in full tilt. with most of the leaves gone its mostly trunks and twigs over a bed of snow. The only remaining leaves are stragglers on Northern red oak and shagbark elm. almost all the underbrush …
The first of December in Randolph VT
I spent a portion of this break in Randolph VT and I went out hiking in the Rochester wildlife reserve. In the reserve i found a place to stand around sunset and I took a few pictures of the trail. The elevation in the Rochester wildlife reserve is almost 2000 ft higher than my Phenology …
Beginning of November
Visiting my Phenology place again, it looks very different from just a few weeks ago. At this point 100% of the ground is covered in leaves, where earlier the ground cover was closer to 50%. The canopy is very sparce with only a few of the eastern red oaks, shagbark hickory and sugar maple still …
Phenology Project; Orem
My phenology place is a strip of woods between the athletic fields and the Redstone campus, adjacent to the Vermont country club’s golf course. I chose this patch of woods because I think it is an excellent representation of human impacts on natural spaces. This patch of woods has a path cutting through it as …