This is my blog for my NR-1 Phenology space, which I have chosen to be Redstone Quarry 🙂
One last visit
•May 15, 2021 • Leave a CommentToday, I was able to visit Redstone quarry for the last time this semester. Finally, the last of the buds on the trees have sprouted and there were even some flowers blooming from the bushes around the little duckweed pond. The blend of nature and culture here has always been easy to see. So many of the buildings in the area are made from the rock directly from this quarry. At one point, this red stone was only a resource- bare rock to cut and move elsewhere. But now, it has been reclaimed by nature, on the exposed rock, little flowers bloom and trees have sprouted out from the dirt left behind. I don’t consider myself a part of this place, I’m just passing through and enjoying the view.
Interaction diagram
•April 15, 2021 • Leave a CommentApril 18th posting
•April 15, 2021 • Leave a CommentI really wish I hadn’t forgotten my phone before going out today (4/15/21) because I was able to see the start of a little bird’s nest sitting up high in what I think is a red oak. I tried to draw a picture but it really just looked like a bunch of scribbles :(. Its raining today so I was hoping to get some muddy tracks but the only ones I found were dogs, people and birds. The birds are mostly tucked away today but I still saw some robins, the regulars (crows) and some common grackles. I didn’t see any sparrows but I definitely heard them out there along with some blue jay songs. I saw- and almost ran into, what I thought was a huuuuge spider web but confirmed was a tent caterpillar nest from the naturally curious book.
Winooski Changes
•March 4, 2021 • Leave a CommentWhile walking through Winooski, I saw sooo many robins. They were more active than I have maybe ever seen them in my hometown. Robins were the most recognizable to me but I saw many other different species as well. On campus as well, when I wake up in the morning, it’s to birds chirping outside the window. I walked around on the last warmer day before it went back to being in the 20-30s so I’m not sure if the birds are still being active in the city areas but they certainly were when I was there in the 40 degree weather. The bud formation in Winooski was no different than the formation on campus so I saw the basic sugar maple and other focal species from last semester. I didn’t see any discernable tracks in the muddy areas other than miscellaneous bird and dog tracks.
Winter Changes
•February 7, 2021 • Leave a CommentRedstone quarry doesn’t look too different than it did in Fall. Other than the snow, the trees still look just like they did then with all their leaves gone and their bark just a little bit more gray then it was then. The snow blankets the landscape but it doesn’t change the frame or the foundation of it.
Tracks at the quarry
•February 7, 2021 • Leave a CommentWhile revisiting the quarry for the first time since November, the first set of noticeable tracks were human. After that there were a whole lot of dog tracks trailing behind. In the area that I consider my phenology space I found the tracks below! At first I was very happy to find what I has thought were fox tracks (We have a lot in Maryland) and then after looking through my Naturally curious book realized 1. fox tracks wouldn’t be that common here in this developed area and, 2. the tracks are way too small to be from a fox. The only animal tracks that I found to be distinct enough to take a picture of were from a house cat with its claws out. Ok hold-on later edit: I asked my dad and sent him the picture and he said that they looked like red fox tracks and that it was maybe just a small fox!! :DD
Human Use
•December 4, 2020 • Leave a CommentRedstone Quarry was made as a result of a church congregation growing too large in 1800’s Burlington. The rock that was excavated from the cite was used to make the College Street Congregational Church in 1863. The stone was then also used to create an estate in the quarry (Then known as Willard’s ledge). The estate was passed by the Buell family into the Universities ownership and has become the Redstone Campus. The quarry itself has been used in recent years as an educational space for students at UVM.
Wood, D. (2018, December 18). Finding Burlington’s Past in Redstone Quarry. Retrieved December 04, 2020, from https://enjoyburlington.com/redstone-quarry/
Centennial Park Pt.2
•November 29, 2020 • Leave a CommentCentennial Park has mostly deciduous trees with red maple, American Beech, Red and White Oak, and a looot of Tulip trees. You find a very small amount Pines or hemlocks in the area.
Johnson, M. (2020). [Lake View of Centennial Park]. Retrieved 2020.
Centennial park
•November 29, 2020 • Leave a CommentFor my new place, I chose a park near me. I wish I had done Centennial woods because that would be a fun comparison. Centennial park is home to Centennial lake, which like all lakes in Maryland, is man-made.
Jacobs, H. (2019). [Aerial View of the lake]. Retrieved 2020.
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