During this four-day urban BioBlitz, I walked around the UVM campus and explored Oakledge Beach. I went to a place at Oakledge that I hadn’t been to before. It was to the left of the parking lot and had a little cove and rock outcropping.
Using iNaturalist was relatively easy. I took photos out and about and uploaded them later in the day. The suggestions about what species I saw seemed accurate as well.
I saw a pair of mallard ducks at Oakledge beach, multiple seagulls on the Redstone green, a European Larch that was starting to bud, one northern white cedar and a few lillies blooming outside. There was a crabapple tree blossoming on the green as well.
Something I found interesting about the reports coming in from other cities is how they are in different phenological stages than we are in Vermont. For example, in San Antonio metro area, the city with the most observations, most of the top identifications are flowers. This differs from Vermont right now, because there are not a lot of flowers out right now. Something else I noticed was the number of coastal observations and observations from the water. Trinidad has a lot of sightings from the surrounding oceans. There are a lot of different ecosystems that are being explored in this BioBlitz.
