{"id":56,"date":"2022-05-04T19:41:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T23:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lklingeb\/?p=56"},"modified":"2022-05-04T19:41:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T23:41:09","slug":"city-nature-challenge-inaturalist-bioblitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lklingeb\/2022\/05\/04\/city-nature-challenge-inaturalist-bioblitz\/","title":{"rendered":"City Nature Challenge iNaturalist BioBlitz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I spent most of my Sunday exploring Centennial Woods, as I have a personal bias. I entered into the woods at around noon, planning to spend the rest of the day there. I really enjoy my time in there because I can really spend my time these days focusing on the smaller changes in the woods. Having viewed this forest go through all four seasons now, I truly appreciate and love everything it has to offer for me and everyone who chooses to explore it. I had traditionally used Seek as my app for nature identification, so switching apps was the only jump. The actual identification process was also a breeze, and I picked up a lovely small array of 12 observations, with a total of 12 species. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This first plant that I identified was this lovely Canada Hawkweed. I was strolling along the stream bed that is just past the first set of bird feeders, and I stumbled across a nice patch of this. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This American Red Squirrel enjoyed its time examining the bird feeder in the tree adjacent to him, as a hungry and very curious chickadee explored said feeder. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I found this Purplepore Bracket along the riverbed by first set of bridges that are completely outside of the forest’s canopy. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This Bittercress was scattered near the Bear Crossing bridge and pond. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The hungry gold finch was pecking at this feeder for almost 10 minutes before losing interest. I watched with my friend as it explored the ins and outs of the contraption. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This Rough Horsetail, which I memorably call by the first part of its latin name, Equisetum<\/em>, was scattered about and beginning to grow all along the inner parts of the marsh, a sign that warmer temperatures are upon us. However, it is nonnative but is mostly harmless aside from taking up habitat space in the competition of the web. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This lovely Mallard was quite fearless when it walked confidently across the bridge at this pond with my friend and I also on it, minutes after this picture was taken. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This Common Garter Snake was slithering along the path that is just past the pond and into the field of mixed-species saplings. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I was particularly excited to find this Eastern Crayfish, as it is always a species I am on the lookout for when I come across small forested streams, ponds, and brooks. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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These fiddleheads of the Royal Fern Family were scattered all about Centennial Woods, sprouting up and beginning their next stage of growth. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This maple bud was hanging off what had looked to be a dead tree that ended up being very much alive, however precariously perched against another tree it might’ve been. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This plant striked me with interest due to how uninteresting it probably appeared to most people. I could not identify it fully as iNaturalist defined it as a Burdocks, and I was unsure what it was, and my friend was unsure as well. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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