Some may call it Red Rocks, some may call it Southwest Burlington, some may even call it Red Rocks Park. I am one of those people. My site was never something I connected with, presumably so since I am not a sentimental person. In all honest, I did this post and the one before it …
Category Archives: Spring Semester 2025
City Nature Challenge iNaturalist BioBlitz
Using iNaturalist is nothing I’m new to. I have worked with the app on previous blog posts, and have gotten quite used to the interface. All I have to do is open the app, take a picture of wildlife, and it will suggest labels for it. That’s when the problem occurred. A large majority of …
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Natures Notebook and the UVM Trees
At 2:00 in the afternoon on the 3rd of April, 2025, I set off to chart the phenological changes among five different trees on the University of Vermont campus. I was looking for a red oak, sugar maple, white oak, red maple, and a Norway maple, respectively. Being a Pennsylvanian, I am used to early …
Wildlife signs in Calahan Park, Burlington
When I was tasked with identifying wildlife in Burlington, I was eager to further investigate the area around me. I did not want to go too far from home, instead opting to expand my usual walk around the block, and explore the neighborhoods just outside of campus.This lead me to Calahan Park. A small area …
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Red Rocks in 2025
The Great Change Coming back to Red Rocks Park for the first time all year, I noticed one thing out of the ordinary. A change so drastic that I had never experienced something like it in my whole life up until this point. For the first time in my personal history, I was able to …