December has brought with it a silence. With this silence comes opportunity for predators such as Grey and Red foxes. They can move across the snow with silence. This also brings an opportunity for ecologists to track animals with much more ease. I was hoping to find animal tracks at or around my site but I was unable to. This being said I did notice other interesting phenology surrounding my site. Although there was snow cover, the ground was still above freezing leading to mud on the trail. Ferns and moss were still green, pictured below one can see Wood Ferns poking through the snow. Also pictured below is white moss on a fallen log exposed by what appeared to be a human disturbance in the snow.
