{"id":50,"date":"2025-01-27T15:47:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T20:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mrietzel\/?p=50"},"modified":"2025-01-27T16:05:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T21:05:01","slug":"a-revisit-to-the-woods-january-27th-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mrietzel\/2025\/01\/27\/a-revisit-to-the-woods-january-27th-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"A Revisit to the Woods! – January 27th, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Not much has changed since I was last in the woods behind Trinity Campus. This time there was less snow, so it was a little easier to walk deeper in the woods. Last time, there was no sign of green besides from the Eastern White Pines, but this time half-alive ferns were seen on the ground underneath the snow. I hadn’t been able to see those last month. The Birch Polypores that have been there since I first visited this spot were still alive on the same tree. It seems like there was less animal activity that I could identify since December. I didn’t hear any birds, but I did hear a few Eastern Grey Squirrels chirping. I was able to identify a few tracks, but it was difficult with the lack of snow. I used a animal track identifying book to identify tracks from a Eastern Cottontail Rabbit, and from an Eastern Grey Squirrel. I had identified both of these animals last month as well. These were the only signs of animal activity in the woods, I didn’t hear or see anything else, but that makes sense because it was quite a cold and windy day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Birch Polypores that have been here since the beginning! The tree is starting to decay, so maybe that is a reason why the mushrooms are growing here…<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ferns popping up from under the snow! They don’t seem to be much alive.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Eastern Cottontail tracks! I’m 99% sure that is correct, but it is possible that it’s something else.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Eastern Grey Squirrel Tracks! They are kind of faint, but they do look similar to the diagrams shown and also vary from 0.6-1 inch in size.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Not much has changed since I was last in the woods behind Trinity Campus. This time there was less snow, so it was a little easier to walk deeper in the woods. Last time, there was no sign of green besides from the Eastern White Pines, but this time half-alive ferns were seen on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9942,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mia Rietzel","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mrietzel\/author\/mrietzel\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mrietzel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mrietzel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mrietzel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mrietzel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9942"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mrietzel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mrietzel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mrietzel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mrietzel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mrietzel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mrietzel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}