During the city Bioblitz, I walked around parts of campus that had a lot of trees, as well as down in South Burlington near the target. I found two species of trees, one maple and one oak, Inaturalist wasnt able to tell me the exact species but I believe it was a sugar maple and …
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April 24th last visit
My site has grown and changed significantly over time in terms of flowering and budding. It is much more green now and resembles what it looked like on my first visit. Every tree has green or has at least started budding, the grass between the rocks seems to be making a comeback, and I can …
April 10th, Tree
I returned to my tree today to find that not much had changed which I kind of expected. Going off of last post, there are now orange-ish buds at the end of every branch on the tree. The bark of this Birch tree has remained in tact and there didnt appear to be much change …
March 27th, Tree
When I revisited my tree, I noticed a change in the buds. Im not entirely sure if this has to do with flowering or anything like that but I notices these orange-ish almost cocoon like things at the end of the branches. I visited in the evening after the sun had set so it was …
March 10th, Tree identification
This is a paper birch tree. I was able to differentiate it from a yellow, and river birch because of its bright white bark (Yellow and River Birch has more of a brown bark). However, finding the difference between Gray Birch and Paper Birch was a bit more difficult. I was able to finally idea …
Sunday, Feb 19th, Red Rocks
Me and my NR friends went to the Red Rocks park on Sunday around 3 pm. The weather the previous week had been slightly warmer than usual and most of the snow in the woods had melted which made tracking anything a bit difficult. During our little hike, we saw lots of grey squirrels which …
Josie Murphy’s, “The Ledges” Phenology Blog
I haven’t exactly picked a name for my place but it is off of a street called “Ledge Road”, so as of now, I’ll call it the ledges. You get to the ledges by walking past redstone, and past the country club, which takes you onto Ledge Road. Walking down the hill of the road …
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