November 28th

November 28th’s post has arrived, for this post, I am home, and have selected a temporary phenology located nearby. A short walk from my house this spot is located within Tyler State Park, the largest and closest skatepark nearby my hometown.

Here in this Image, you can see the location of my new Phenology spot, I found observing this new spot to be extremely interesting as it provided me an opportunity to compare and contrast what I found with my regular phenology spot located back in Burlington. It was a nice change of pace and enjoyed visiting the very park I used to frequent as a child.

One of the most noticeable differences was temperature, being more southern in Pennsylvania it was about 10 degrees warmer than it had been in Vermont, the composition of the woods was also completely different, there was very little understory left due to the deer issues we have in Pennsylvania, and the woods were composed of more hardwoods and fewer evergreens/conifers. The only animal life I saw while visiting this spot was gray squirrels as well as several deer.