This past week, I decided to see the amount of edible species I could forage from my site, as plenty of leafy greens and gorgeous flowers are starting to sprout up in the warmer days of spring. The ground was covered once again in a thick blanket of grass and flowers, much like the way […]
Phenology of Place: Centennial Brook
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City Nature Challenge!
In my personal opinion, the City Nature Challenge was a whole lot of fun! iNaturalist is a neat little app, and outside of NR2 I still use it on my day to day travels. The place I explored the most for the City Nature Challenge was on a little island in Winooski, mostly made up […]
Spring is in the Air at Centennial!
This past week, I have spent three consecutive days outside wandering Centennial Woods. This time of year is prime amphibian-findin’ time, and my friends and I set out to look for some frogs and newts. I hadn’t visited Centennial Woods since the beginning of March, and seeing the landscape becoming green and colorful again was […]
A Walk in Burlington
On Thursday, a couple of friends and I got together to wander the parts of Burlington we haven’t yet explored. The ground was frozen solid, and most of the trees had long lost their leaves. A small dusting of snow covered the ground that crunched under our feet as we walked. As per usual, I […]
Centennial Brook: Frozen Over
As I returned to my phenology spot after winter break, I was almost certain I would find less evidence of wildlife than I did in the spring. Boy was I wrong! I found all kinds of tracks and scat through the snow, in fact even found more evidence of the residents of Centennial than I […]
Centennial Woods: History of Human Use
Centennial Woods has had a broad and rocky human history, and has been no stranger to human use. Back before white settlers even came to Vermont, the Abenaki indigenous people used this space to hunt and live. The space used to much more vast and forested, but it almost became completely deforested once the white […]
Away from Centennial Brook: The Perkiomen Creek
My new spot at home is much like Centennial Brook, but is also very different in many ways! Located just down the street from me, the Perkiomen Creek is 38 miles long and extends across three counties. The part I have access to is only about a ten minute walk from my house and is […]
Centennial Brook Events Map
When I visited Centennial this time, it was quite dead and barren. There was hardly any activity besides a single singing bird and a couple of minnows. A curious thing happened while I was there though, as the water level in the brook rose and got really fast all of a sudden. It wasn’t gradual, […]
Centennial Brook Update
When I visited Centennial Woods again this week, I was amazed at how much had changed due to the weather. It was much more quiet, and the colors were very different. Most of the reedy plants are beginning to die for the season and are releasing white, wispy seed pods. All of the trees in […]
Centennial Brook
I chose the first visible spot of Centennial Brook as my spot for my phenology project. If you take a left at the first fork in the trail entering Centennial Woods, it’s only a little ways away past that. There are not too many woody species in the area besides a Norway maple and a […]