{"id":114,"date":"2022-02-17T14:25:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T19:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/?p=114"},"modified":"2022-02-17T14:25:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T19:25:57","slug":"february-15th-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/2022\/02\/17\/february-15th-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"February 15th, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I took this window of no-lab week to take a walk down to the waterfront of Champlain Lake to enjoy the view of the somewhat frozen shore I I&#8217;d seen a few people talking about online. On my way out of my dorm I wanted to document the high population of American Robins that I&#8217;ve seen congregating on Athletic campus as the weather got warmer. Every time I step out of my dorm I&#8217;m greeted by these robins chilling out in the barren trees. They seem to be well feed- but are still evasive as soon as I pull out my camera so I&#8217;ve been struggling to capture a photo of them. I was lucky enough to get a grainy image that is focused enough to really document one of the birds, and I promptly uploaded it to inaturalist where I&#8217;ve been put to shame constantly with my novice bird photography skills.\\<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"904\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_E0325-1024x904.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"115\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_E0325.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/?attachment_id=115\" class=\"wp-image-115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_E0325-1024x904.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_E0325-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_E0325-768x678.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_E0325.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">For some reason my computer has decided that my bird pictures are too bad to be uploaded so here&#8217;s a spoiler of another bird sighting on my walk.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After another humiliation by the campus American Robins I made my way downtown and to the shoreline where the water has frozen over and created a really beautiful landscape. Along the bike path which I followed a all the way to Rock Point there was a ton of track, though it seemed like most of them were from domestic dogs that walkers commonly bring to walk on the path. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0304-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"116\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/?attachment_id=116\" class=\"wp-image-116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0304-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0304-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0304-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0304-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0304-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0303-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"117\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/?attachment_id=117\" class=\"wp-image-117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0303-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0303-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0303-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0303-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0303-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0306-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"118\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/?attachment_id=118\" class=\"wp-image-118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0306-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0306-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0306-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0306-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0306-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0308-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"119\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0308-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/?attachment_id=119\" class=\"wp-image-119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0308-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0308-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0308-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0308-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0308-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0310-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"120\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/?attachment_id=120\" class=\"wp-image-120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0310-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0310-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0310-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0310-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0310-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0311-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"121\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/?attachment_id=121\" class=\"wp-image-121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0311-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0311-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0311-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0311-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0311-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0312-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"122\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0312-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/?attachment_id=122\" class=\"wp-image-122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0312-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0312-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0312-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0312-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0312-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I really loved seeing all of the frozen over water. You can sort of see the frozen shoreline in some of my photos and even a frozen stream that drains into the lake in the most recent photo (See above on the right).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-4 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0313-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"123\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/?attachment_id=123\" class=\"wp-image-123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0313-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0313-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0313-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0313-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0313-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0314-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"124\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/?attachment_id=124\" class=\"wp-image-124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0314-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0314-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0314-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0314-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0314-1-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0319-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"125\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0319-1-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/?attachment_id=125\" class=\"wp-image-125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0319-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0319-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0319-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0319-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0319-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And of course my favorite part of this venture was seeing a cardinal in one of the tree along the path. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0317-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0317-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0317-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0317-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0317-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0317-1-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And finally some more shots of the frozen lake and tracks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-5 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0320-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"127\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/?attachment_id=127\" class=\"wp-image-127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0320-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0320-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0320-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0320-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0320-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0321-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"128\" 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On my way out of my dorm I wanted to document the high population of American Robins that I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7014,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"nhwalsh","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/author\/nhwalsh\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7014"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nhwalsh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}