{"id":54,"date":"2021-05-16T21:50:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T01:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lwhitema\/?p=54"},"modified":"2021-05-16T21:50:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T01:50:49","slug":"city-nature-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lwhitema\/2021\/05\/16\/city-nature-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"City Nature Challenge!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The place I explored the most for the City Nature Challenge was on a little island in Winooski, mostly made up of birch, spruce, and cedar. What I found especially cool about the place we explored, there was cedar growing right out of the abandoned buildings\/structures all around us! It was like a cedar bonanza!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lwhitema\/files\/2021\/05\/Cedar-rapids.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lwhitema\/files\/2021\/05\/Cedar-rapids.jpg 320w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lwhitema\/files\/2021\/05\/Cedar-rapids-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This probably means that the surrounding environment is pretty acidic and moist, as that is where red cedar thrive the most. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lwhitema\/files\/2021\/05\/paper-birch-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56\" width=\"318\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lwhitema\/files\/2021\/05\/paper-birch-2.jpg 320w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lwhitema\/files\/2021\/05\/paper-birch-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And here was some little paper birch leaves peeking out to say hi, ready to grow into big strong leaves for the summer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other species of wildlife we saw were a pair of common merganser, and a lone Canada goose. Unfortunately I was unable to document the birds, because the goose was quite aggressive about protecting its nest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found it extremely breathtaking to see the biodiversity across the globe through the world wide city nature challenge. But I was also super surprised about how many species we see right here in Burlington are super common all across the world! I hope to think people from Tokyo were just as interested to see the species that was spotted in Vermont as I was seeing their species. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"lwhitema","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lwhitema\/author\/lwhitema\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lwhitema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lwhitema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lwhitema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lwhitema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lwhitema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lwhitema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lwhitema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lwhitema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lwhitema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lwhitema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}