January 25, 2022

I traveled back to my phenology site from last semester and made many new observations.

My Phenology spot is right on the trail, on the wooden bridges. These wooden bridges are now completely hidden as the snow is packed tightly on top. Over the winter, the river is completely covered in snow where I was able to see some animal tracks. While I did see some dog footprints, the ones on the river were a lot smaller and closer together (as seen in the pictures above). These footprints seem to be traveling along where the river was.

The vegetation of my site was very limited. All the ferns that were there before are now either snowed over or the leaves are now gone. Although most of the plants are covered in snow, or the leaves are completely gone, the Burberry bush still contains the red berries.

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