{"id":32,"date":"2022-02-21T20:35:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T01:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lmessmer\/?p=32"},"modified":"2022-02-21T20:35:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T01:35:17","slug":"february-21st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lmessmer\/2022\/02\/21\/february-21st\/","title":{"rendered":"February 21st"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lmessmer\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_1485-1024x741.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33\" width=\"392\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lmessmer\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_1485-1024x741.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lmessmer\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_1485-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lmessmer\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_1485-768x556.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lmessmer\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_1485.jpg 1129w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><figcaption>Grey Fox Tracks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lmessmer\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_1486.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34\" width=\"376\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lmessmer\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_1486.jpg 564w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lmessmer\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_1486-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lmessmer\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_1487-856x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35\" width=\"294\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lmessmer\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_1487-856x1024.jpg 856w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lmessmer\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_1487-251x300.jpg 251w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lmessmer\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_1487-768x919.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lmessmer\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_1487.jpg 875w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><figcaption>Fisher Tracks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"lmessmer","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lmessmer\/author\/lmessmer\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lmessmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lmessmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lmessmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lmessmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lmessmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lmessmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lmessmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lmessmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lmessmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lmessmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}