{"id":69,"date":"2021-03-07T20:58:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T01:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jhricephenologyspot\/?p=69"},"modified":"2021-05-16T09:52:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T13:52:28","slug":"3-7-21-phenology-of-downtown-burlington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jhricephenologyspot\/2021\/03\/07\/3-7-21-phenology-of-downtown-burlington\/","title":{"rendered":"3\/7\/21 – Phenology of Downtown Burlington"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I strolled down Main Street with a friend on an overcast afternoon in early March. The temperatures had risen to the high twenties, and much of February’s gifts began to thaw. The grass peeked out from beneath a layer of frost in some places, and we witnessed a large flock of birds taking advantage of this. They looked to be robins mixed in with some darker birds, and they traveled from tree to grass-patch to tree, picking out what food they could along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We continued down through Church Street, towards the waterfront at Lake Champlain. Human activity was at a lull this drab Wednesday afternoon, so constant chirps could be heard if one listened intently. Down at the waterfront, other sounds intrigued my ears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The recent thaw showed up in the ice formations on edge of the lake. The frozen layer had broken up into smaller, barstool-sized chunks. As waves rolled along, the ice chunks undulated with the water, creating a beautiful slushy-sounding tempo at the edge of the lake. A duck paddled along further out, where space in between the ice chunks allowed for unruffled travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I poked around the brambles in between the bike path and the water, finding an assortment of wild tracks among human and dog prints. It’s likely that I found cottontail rabbit, due to form of the tracks and the hopping behavior I observed in the snow. I found some other, very strange prints in the snow. My best guess is a snowshoe, maybe the person, maybe the hare. Based on the strange form of the tracks, it very well could’ve been a person, but still, the hopping motion can be observed, and the tracks are all very compact and circular in their shape. A large hare could make that kind of shape hopping through fresh snow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Part of a Cottontail Rabbit track<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Possible remnants of a snowshoe hare<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Spring still has not yet arrived, as the majority of Burlington’s plants have not yet budded. Despite this, non-human life still seems very much out-and-about as we await the warmer temperatures of Spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I strolled down Main Street with a friend on an overcast afternoon in early March. The temperatures had risen to the high twenties, and much of February’s gifts began to thaw. The grass peeked out from beneath a layer of frost in some places, and we witnessed a large flock of birds taking advantage of … <\/p>\n

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