{"id":80,"date":"2022-05-03T13:26:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T17:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/?p=80"},"modified":"2022-05-03T13:26:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T17:26:18","slug":"city-nature-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/2022\/05\/03\/city-nature-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"City Nature Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For the City Nature Challenge I explored Centennial Woods. I also went downtown to Church Street and observed species but did not log anything during that trip. Using iNaturalist was a bit challenging to figure out how to join the NR2 project and uploading species that I was unsure of. I do not have a total count of species I encountered but there were a lot!! I was not surprised that dandelions were the most observed species globally however, Mallards being the second most observed was surprising! I guess I need to keep an eye out for ducks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>These were some species I identified! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/files\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-1.23.17-PM-820x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82\" width=\"619\" height=\"773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/files\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-1.23.17-PM-820x1024.png 820w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/files\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-1.23.17-PM-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/files\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-1.23.17-PM-768x960.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/files\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-1.23.17-PM.png 1018w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><figcaption>American Beech <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/files\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-1.23.50-PM-896x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83\" width=\"695\" height=\"794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/files\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-1.23.50-PM-896x1024.png 896w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/files\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-1.23.50-PM-263x300.png 263w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/files\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-1.23.50-PM-768x878.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/files\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-1.23.50-PM.png 966w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><figcaption>Smokey Bracket Mushroom <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"958\" height=\"896\" data-id=\"84\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/files\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-1.23.37-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/files\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-1.23.37-PM.png 958w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/files\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-1.23.37-PM-300x281.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/files\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-1.23.37-PM-768x718.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 958px) 100vw, 958px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"876\" data-id=\"85\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/files\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-1.23.27-PM-1024x876.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/files\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-1.23.27-PM-1024x876.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/files\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-1.23.27-PM-300x257.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/files\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-1.23.27-PM-768x657.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/files\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-1.23.27-PM.png 1026w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Dragonfly Larva found in Centennial Brook <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the City Nature Challenge I explored Centennial Woods. I also went downtown to Church Street and observed species but did not log anything during that trip. Using iNaturalist was a bit challenging to figure out how to join the NR2 project and uploading species that I was unsure of. I do not have a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/2022\/05\/03\/city-nature-challenge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;City Nature Challenge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7058,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"msassama","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/author\/msassama\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7058"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/msassama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}