{"id":120,"date":"2024-03-24T16:00:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T20:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/?p=120"},"modified":"2024-03-24T16:00:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T20:00:36","slug":"false-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/2024\/03\/24\/false-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"false spring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We were back at Red Rock Park this week, and the snow was deeper than I&#8217;ve ever seen it. I could tell it was a symptom of a false spring. We saw pretty warm weather a few weeks ago before heavy snow hit us yesterday. Today, although there was heavy snow cover, the weather was warm and pleasant.  However, because of all the snow, it was difficult to look for signs of spring. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2024\/03\/16-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2024\/03\/16-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2024\/03\/16-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2024\/03\/16-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2024\/03\/16-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2024\/03\/16-648x365.jpg 648w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2024\/03\/16-341x192.jpg 341w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2024\/03\/16.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The first thing I checked for was signs of swelling buds on the trees. The buds of this beech tree were easy to see, but I did not spot any signs of emerging life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2024\/03\/15-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2024\/03\/15-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2024\/03\/15-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2024\/03\/15-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2024\/03\/15-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2024\/03\/15-648x365.jpg 648w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2024\/03\/15-341x192.jpg 341w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2024\/03\/15.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The next thing I checked for was tracks. Because the snow was very deep, it was difficult to make out tracks of heavier animals that would sink deeper into the snow bank. However, I did find many bird tracks going from tree to tree as birds hopped along the surface of the snow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2024\/03\/17-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-125\" style=\"width:839px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2024\/03\/17-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2024\/03\/17-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2024\/03\/17-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2024\/03\/17-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2024\/03\/17-1-648x365.jpg 648w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2024\/03\/17-1-341x192.jpg 341w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2024\/03\/17-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t able to spot any birds, but I did hear them all around. Below is an audio clip of the bird calls. I can&#8217;t quite identify them, but I can tell that there are at least two or three distinct calls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/files\/2024\/03\/audio2.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were back at Red Rock Park this week, and the snow was deeper than I&#8217;ve ever seen it. I could tell it was a symptom of a false spring. We saw pretty warm weather a few weeks ago before heavy snow hit us yesterday. Today, although there was heavy snow cover, the weather was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/2024\/03\/24\/false-spring\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">false spring<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8953,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"gsalbrec","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/author\/gsalbrec\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8953"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/gsalbrec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}