{"id":57,"date":"2023-02-14T19:31:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T00:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/igoentze\/?p=57"},"modified":"2023-02-14T19:31:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T00:31:11","slug":"post-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/igoentze\/2023\/02\/14\/post-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Post #6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To find some winter wildlife I decided to venture outside of my phenology spot and visit Centennial Woods. At first it was difficult to find any sort of evidence that was not a domestic dog as a large percentage of the snow has melted and the area that hasn’t melted has had ample time to be stomped on by dogs and humans, leading it to be a slippery layer of ice. At first I was pretty discouraged, but I spotted an area with relatively decent snow cover and less human disturbance across the brook in Centennial. I found a place where I could make a daring but reasonable leap across the stream and I was set. I immediately found my first track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This track is pretty clearly, at least in my opinion, a deer. Outside of just this picture there was a diagonal walking pattern about the right size for a deer and the hoof print is a clear indicator that it is a deer. It has melted a decent amount, but is still relatively in tact compared to what my other tracks were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This was a much more challenging track. It has definitely been melting for quite a while, making the shapes quite distorted and large but there was definitely a gallop pattern to the tracks, as there were repeated clusters of four feet with the ones in front being the largest. I think it is some sort of hare or rabbit as the tracks seemed bigger than a squirrel could make and the front paws were not always parallel and were sometimes skewed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This final track was definitely the hardest one for me to identify. It was moving in a weird pattern that my best guess was a bound but would occasionally look slightly different. It definitely was not a diagonal walker or a galloper. I decided to go with a bounding pattern and when I felt the paw print in the track it had five toes. Based on the size of the tracks and the walking pattern my best guess is a fisher but I could definitely be wrong in my guess. Overall this was a fun trip and despite starting off slow I found my groove and had a good time despite the conditions. iNaturalist was also pretty intuitive and I had a good experience with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To find some winter wildlife I decided to venture outside of my phenology spot and visit Centennial Woods. At first it was difficult to find any sort of evidence that was not a domestic dog as a large percentage of the snow has melted and the area that hasn’t melted has had ample time to … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Post #6”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"igoentze","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/igoentze\/author\/igoentze\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/igoentze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/igoentze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/igoentze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/igoentze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/igoentze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/igoentze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/igoentze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/igoentze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/igoentze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/igoentze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}