{"id":89,"date":"2021-05-04T15:41:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T19:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mbernat\/?p=89"},"modified":"2021-05-04T15:41:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T19:41:37","slug":"city-nature-challenge-phenology-of-the-intervale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mbernat\/2021\/05\/04\/city-nature-challenge-phenology-of-the-intervale\/","title":{"rendered":"City Nature Challenge: Phenology of the Intervale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Overall, I had an amazing experience with the City Nature Celebration. I did not record as many species as I thought I would going into it, but I used the multi-day celebration as a way to especially appreciate nature and to just be more aware of my surroundings. Whenever I would walk around campus or through town I would be trying to observe the trees and birds around me, but my main place of observation and recording was at the Intervale. I went to the event there being hosted by Burlington Wildways. I ended up staying there for about four and a half hours walking around, observing the nature and natural processes around me. I love using iNaturalist to record species I find, as it has been valuable to my learning about the natural world. However, I have a strong dislike in using it a lot when I am out and about in nature because it means I have to be on my phone when I really just want to be taking it all in free of distraction. This is a battle I will continue to struggle with. I found it interesting to look at the cities, such as Cape Town, which had the most recorded observations. I am just super curious why certain cities did better than others. What were they doing that others weren’t? Does this just mean they have a more naturally curious population? Or better organizational skills to rally their people to work together? I have no idea, I just had fun thinking about these things. Now, here are some photos from my time at the Intervale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is my favorite picture. It shows a lone tulip in a field of invasive goutweed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A beautiful field of horsetails. To me it looks like a mini forest of conifers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A dandelion with some kind of fly on it, maybe a Syrphid fly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Unfurling Ostrich Fern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Here is a small boxelder tree<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n