Second semester at Salmon Hole!
I am glad to be returning to my phenology spot, Salmon Hole, once again this semester. I visited my location on Friday, January 28th. At the time I was there, around 11:30 it was snowing fairly hard and a lot of the tracks I saw, unfortunately were covered up, however I still witnessed a lot of changes at my site. Cold temperatures have frozen the small running streams that ran into the river. Snow has covered the grasses and mosses, and giant rock slabs now all blend together under the snowy blanket. It’s interesting how most the water is frozen with now atop it while the other part is still rapidly moving downstream.
^here is what the view from my spot was looking like on 1-28-22
^Compared to what it looked like on 12-11-2021
^here there were a bunch of tracks that are leading over what once was a creek. They are definitely mainly human but I thought perhaps some hares, otters, muskrats, fox etc. could be roaming down here as well.
I came across these tracks which aren’t super clear because of the snow but I believe that they are Fox tracks.
This is picture I took through binoculars which I thought was funny because the snow inside of the tree looks like a squirrel standing up.