Returning to my spot from last semester, the biggest change that I found was that there is actually snow now! This a very exciting development, although it makes traveling on the bike path to Rock Point a little bit more treacherous. Interestingly, the snow cover near my spot is less than in other areas I’ve been to in the Burlington area. There are spots of bare ground visible and where there is snow it is only a couple inches deep. Although this is slightly disappointing, it has led to an interesting animal track. Instead of an impression left in the snow, there is a spot where there is compact snow due to human travel that an animal tracked mud over, due to the exposed dirt in some spots. It is a pretty faint track but if I had to guess I venture that it is a racoon. The path that my spot is along is also a pretty common dog walking spot so almost every time I would get excited about finding a print it would be a dog. Another small change that I noticed is that the foliage of the cedar trees is more yellow than it has been in the past. I’m not sure if this is just me misremembering the trees before or if they yellow a little in the winter, but they definitely seemed more yellow.
