{"id":30,"date":"2025-01-26T21:26:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T02:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/?p=30"},"modified":"2025-01-26T21:26:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T02:26:22","slug":"a-fresh-year-of-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/2025\/01\/26\/a-fresh-year-of-tracks\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fresh Year of Tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/files\/2025\/01\/20250126_140912-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/files\/2025\/01\/20250126_140912-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/files\/2025\/01\/20250126_140912-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/files\/2025\/01\/20250126_140912-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/files\/2025\/01\/20250126_140912-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/files\/2025\/01\/20250126_140912-1568x2091.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/files\/2025\/01\/20250126_140912-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The tracks aren&#8217;t the only change I&#8217;ve seen, as there seems to be no remaining leaves in the hardwoods and decomposition has taken affect in the subnivean zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/files\/2025\/01\/20250126_140557-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/files\/2025\/01\/20250126_140557-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/files\/2025\/01\/20250126_140557-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/files\/2025\/01\/20250126_140557-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/files\/2025\/01\/20250126_140557-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/files\/2025\/01\/20250126_140557-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/files\/2025\/01\/20250126_140557-1568x1176.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There were much more than just rabbit tracks in my spot, but I haven&#8217;t been able to identify any other species yet, so hopefully more tracking will train my eye!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/files\/2025\/01\/20250126_140445-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/files\/2025\/01\/20250126_140445-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/files\/2025\/01\/20250126_140445-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/files\/2025\/01\/20250126_140445-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/files\/2025\/01\/20250126_140445-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/files\/2025\/01\/20250126_140445-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/files\/2025\/01\/20250126_140445-1568x1176.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t the only change I&#8217;ve seen, as there seems to be no remaining leaves in the hardwoods and decomposition has taken affect in the subnivean zone. There &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/2025\/01\/26\/a-fresh-year-of-tracks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Fresh Year of Tracks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9945,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"eorem","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/author\/eorem\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/eorem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}