{"id":381,"date":"2023-04-30T16:45:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T20:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lehollow\/?p=381"},"modified":"2023-04-30T16:45:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T20:45:19","slug":"april-30th-visit-city-nature-challange-inaturalist-bioblitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lehollow\/2023\/04\/30\/april-30th-visit-city-nature-challange-inaturalist-bioblitz\/","title":{"rendered":"April 30th Visit: City Nature Challange iNaturalist BioBlitz"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My Location for the iNaturalist BioBlitz!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

What did I find?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Beyond the few flowers I stopped to take a photo of on Saturday while walking downtown, my main observations came from a visit to Centennial Woods. I tried to take a photo of anything that stood out to me and tried to make a great effort to really pay attention to everything around me, sights and sounds, and smells included! I enjoyed using iNaturalist, and I have for a long time. My Senior year Environmental Science Professor encouraged me to get it, so I’ve been using it for over a year now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Although somewhat hard to decipher, the left is a map of the general area surrounding Cenntenial Woods and the observations of all of the Lab Sections. On the right, is my specific path of observations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Many Species?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

According to iNaturalist, I on my own was able to identify about 16 species<\/strong>, although as a whole, I made 55 Observations<\/strong>. I will attempt to caption all of the photos of the findings that I have the names available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boxelder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Red Maple<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Conifer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In an effort to not excessively include tree species I frequently identify, I only included three of the many I took a photo of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finding Slugs was new for me, but I was pleasantly surprised to see many of them showing up in Cenntenial Woods. I am not entirely certain about my identification, but according to iNaturalist suggestions, the three slugs above can be classified as Arion Slugs.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unidentified<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Genus Gloeophyllum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Unidentified<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Not only did I see a lot of trees and a few species, I saw quite a few beautiful fungi species!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Black Capped Chickadee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mouse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Common Racoon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There were a few species that were out and about in Cenntenial including a Black Capped Chickadee<\/strong>, a Mouse <\/strong>of some sort, and a Common Racoon<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I loved getting to see some ferns out and about today, and I was mesmerized by just how beautiful they were!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unidentified<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Grape Hyacinth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Daffodil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tulip<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

On my walk back to campus, I stopped outside of Jeffords Hall to take a look at all the spring flowers that were planted and there were some pretty beautiful colors to behold!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

City Nature Challenge Takeaways?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I went looking into other City Nature Challenge pages and was amazed by some of the beautiful observations I found! I went first to my home state of Texas, where the Dallas\/Fort Worth City Nature Challenge is currently in fourth place! I put some of my favorite photos I found scrolling through the observations below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I decided to look at the location in First Place as well, La Paz in Bolivia and I find it so interesting and inspiring how much participation there is! I also found out through a quick Google search that La Paz is actually the World’s highest city as well! Some interesting photos from Bolivia I included below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If it wasn’t obvious, I am a big flower person, so I really enjoyed seeing all of the various and diverse flora of the world, and I will be excited to see the winner of the whole challenge!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The End<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Even though I was a whole sentimental mess at the end of the last blog post, I will spare this post from being a follow-up to that. I was excited to return to Centennial Woods today for the BioBlitz just like I was excited to visit Centennial as my very first Tree ID trip from last semester! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am so happy to have learned so much, and gotten to document it here. I will miss getting to ramble on about trees and flowers and tracks all the time, but I am grateful that I had somewhere to go on about it all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you choose to stop the story.”<\/p>\nFrank Herbert<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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