My trip into Centennial Woods was quite enjoyable. The cold snap Burlington has been going through has come to an end; the sun was out and the temperature was a comfortable 25 degrees. The rise and temperature and the sun lead the snowpack to firm up a little bit, making the trail quite slippery. When I got to my place I found it very challenging to find animal tracks due to the dominant presence of human footsteps. As I was examining my area a dog walker passed, causing me to further doubt the presence of wild animal tracks. Despite this, I do believe I did find a set of tracks although I do not know what from.
In terms of other animal presence in my place, I could hear woodpeckers hard at work. I could also hear chickadees, this was nice because they are Maine’s (my home’s) state bird. There were also two other calls that I read repeatedly, both I suspect to be from birds although I did not see them for confirmation.
A change that I noticed since winter trully set in is the complete burrial of the ferns I had posted about previosly, they are either dead or just completely covered in snow. Dispite this, there i still green moss poking out from snow covered logs. This fascinates me given the sub zero temperatures that were prominant earlier this month.
