The place I chose to do as my break phenology site was my father’s sugar house. This time of year there isn’t much in the way of wildlife and birds as we are very high up on a mountain and many animals leave in hopes of better habitats at lower more protected areas. However this year this was especially true as we had multiple nor’easters come through in the beginning of March which resulted in over 2 feet of powder. This made it even more of a biological desert. Typically there are many species such as turkey, deer, bear moose, crows, ravens, raccoons, fishers, robins and many others that use the fields and surrounding woods for habitat. However this time of year many of those species have left or gone into hibernation and during the whole break I only saw a couple of crows flying around and a few fox or coyote tracks, but this was very limited. In a couple of weeks more birds and mammals will start to move back into the area as spring starts to take hold and the snow leaves for the rest of spring and summer. Most of the surrounding areas of the sugar house are fields but there is more woods than anything else once you get away from the sugar house. These woods are all dormant now and the woods are in many different stages as some have been cut off recently some about 10 years ago and others have not been logged in 30 or 40 years.
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