For this assignment I decided to explore wildlife around Trinity, specifically in the area of the Back 5 where the residence halls meet the wooded area behind/to the side of them. My first time exploring I encountered a striped skunk! The skunk came out from a shrub behind Mercy hall and walked into the woods and then a few minutes later came back out of the woods and proceeded to walk through the Back 5 area, scaring a few RA’s in the process. My second exploration of wildlife in the back and woods areas of Trinity I found an abundance of eastern gray squirrel tracks and even saw a few scampering around some fallen trees in the wooded area near Sichel Hall. A lot of the tracks I saw were indiscernible because of recent snowfall, but the ones I could see were small, lead to or came from a tree, and followed the same pattern as an eastern gray squirrel track. My experience using was pretty good, aside from trying to figure out which was the correct “Wildlife Signs in Burlington” project to join, everything else was pretty self explanatory. It was really simple to submit an observation and it automatically put it into the project which was nice. I wish I had more time to go more places in Burlington to find more interesting wildlife signs but hopefully I will be able to do so later in the semester or with our labs.
