There was a lot of new plant growth at my phenology spot from the last time I visited. There was also a lot of animal activity. I went near dusk and could hear 5 or more birds singing near my site, and I saw a few squirrels running around. One bird I could see picking …

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I walked around part of Burlington Sunday afternoon, and it was chilly but sunny all day. Some of the snow that has been covering the ground for months has started to melt over the past week, exposing brown grass. I didn’t really see many signs of plant growth yet, and I didn’t hear any birds …

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Snow is fully covering the ground and the trees at my phenology site are bare. No buds have started growing on trees and bushes yet. A few different animal tracks can be seen at my site. I believe one of the tracks I saw was a rabbit, and the other was likely a dog.

I chose my phenology spot in Centennial Woods. Although Centennial Woods is mostly forested now, it has seen a lot of human land use. From the 1800s into the early 1900s, the area that is now Centennial Woods was mostly farm land. This land was sold to The University of Vermont in 1904. The University …

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For my phenology site in Burlington, I chose a spot in Centennial Woods, and for my home phenology site I chose a fairly similar area in a nearby, wooded park. The first thing that I noticed about my home phenology site is that the forest floor is covered pretty densely in bushes, unlike my site …

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The cold clear water trickles under the wooden bridge slowly moving forward to bigger streams to rivers to lakes to oceans