Today I decided to explore the opposite end of my original phenology spot. My original spot was located closer to the dorms on Trinity Campus and therefore had a lot more foot traffic, making it quite difficult to spot most tracks near the accessible areas. The opposite end of the woods is more tucked away, making it a lot easier to spot tracks this time around. I explored this other end of the woods with a friend, and we were able to spot some grey fox and fisher tracks. We later spotted some grey squirrel tracks and what we thought might be a porcupine as well (though I was unable to get a picture of these two). The iNaturalist app is definitely a useful tool if you’re looking for a tool to assist you with identifying certain plants in the area, looking at locations of recent sightings of other creatures and looking at how many posts were found recently. I definitely like to use the app for identifying plants, but it is not the most useful when it comes to identifying tracks in this case.
