What’s up phenology friends!! We areeee back!! This week, I explored an area of the Burlington area, in a town called Milton. It is about 20 minutes from the UVM campus but the drive is very pretty. This location is home to the boathouse of Vermont Rowing, a club that I am a part of.
This landscape is very diverse – there are muddy, watery marshes, grassy areas, and river bank. At this site, I encountered lots of different species such as chickens, beaver, morning dove, raven, robin, bald eagle, and more. I counted 10 different species. The photo to the left is my teammate Nick being approached by a chicken.
It was interesting exploring the global reports and seeing how they compared to my sightings. Many sites are experiencing changes due to climate change, which can be seen at my site as well. The growing seasons of plant and tree species is starting earlier, and ending later which puts pressure on animal species to have a shorter winter season. This cycle of earlier warming is only going to get worse around the world with climate change and global warming, unless something is done.
Above are map images of my site in Milton. On the left is a more zoomed in graphic, while the image on the right is my site in relation to Burlington and my current location, at the University of Vermont.
That is a wrap friends!! I hope you learned something cool today about climate change and are feeling amped up to take some climate action!! See you next time 🙂