I decided I would go back to Rock Point for my INaturalist project, since it was my phenology spot last semester and I enjoy walking around there. I went on a relatively warm day compared to the ones before it, so most of the snow had melted and the ground was incredibly muddy and moist. I also noticed that a small river had been formed from the melting snow leading down towards Lake Champlain. I even took a photo of it.
It was cool to see naturally flowing water making its way into the lake and let me see the many ways Lake Champlain gets supplied with water. Alongside this, I witnessed many other natural phenomena that I recorded with INaturalist. Here are a few of the photos I took:
I identified this berry as a type of gooseberry. I noticed the alternate branching as well as the striking feature of the branches themselves have thorns on them.
I stumbled upon this burrow while walking on one of the Rock Point trails. There weren’t any tracks around the burrow to help me identify what made the hole, but I am led to believe it could be a fisher or a groundhog.
This track I spotted I am torn between whether it could be a white-tailed deer or a moose track. The track itself was around 4 inches, which leads me to believe it is a moose track, but I am unsure since moose being around Vermont are on the rare side. Overall, it is probably a white-tailed deer, but because of the overall size of the track itself, it could be a rare moose.