{"id":39,"date":"2021-03-06T22:22:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T03:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lwhitema\/?p=39"},"modified":"2021-04-16T13:20:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T17:20:11","slug":"a-walk-in-burlington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lwhitema\/2021\/03\/06\/a-walk-in-burlington\/","title":{"rendered":"A Walk in Burlington"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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 was so pleasantly surprised and delighted at the amount of wildlife that can be found even in the most urban parts of the city!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, we visited a pier along Lake Champlain that was mostly frozen. All across the ice was a tapestry of little foot paths left by the residents of Lake Champlain. The most prevalent were these particular tracks pictured below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They weren’t quite in a bound pattern, signature of the fisher, nor did they have evidence of belly-sliding like a river otter. The group concluded that they are still definitely part of the weasel family one way or another. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the next stop of our little adventure, we explored a walkway that trailed alongside a wastewater treatment plant. This isn’t a place you would normally expect to see wildlife, but we were pleasantly surprised!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Swimming as if they owned the place, a group of mallards swam laps around one of the facility’s basins. My friends and I thought they looked so absurd and out of place, and we marveled over how wildlife and human activity go so hand in hand from time to time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most stunning marvel of them all came at the end of our adventure when a beautiful, full grown bald eagle soared over our heads as we began our walk home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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