Our assignment for this week didn’t have anything to do with our physical phenology spot, instead we had to go out tracking somewhere in Burlington. Over the weekend my roommate and I decided to make a trip downtown out of it, so we got breakfast at Burlington Bagel Bakery before taking a walk by the waterfront to look for tracks or animals there.
We didn’t find any signs of animals at the waterfront except for lots of dog tracks. I wanted to find something more interesting so my roommate and I abandoned our search for now. Later that afternoon, I went with some friends down to Rock Point to investigate more.
We heard lots of birds and saw this chickadee in the woods. It kinda camouflages with the branches. We also found a lot of tracks that look like the picture below. Our best guess was bunny tracks based on the prints and the direction they were heading, but it might have been a type of squirrel too.
To conclude our trip to Rock Point, we checked out the Thrust Fault at the edge of the lake to have some fun. The snow and ice made it look really cool and much different than when we first came here for class in September. It was a very fun outing!
