{"id":214,"date":"2021-05-03T17:48:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T21:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/?p=214"},"modified":"2021-05-03T17:48:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T21:48:33","slug":"city-nature-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/2021\/05\/03\/city-nature-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"City Nature Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week I participated in my wildlife exploration around my house in Essex, Vermont, about 20 minutes outside of Burlington. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"691\" height=\"403\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/files\/2021\/05\/Map.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/files\/2021\/05\/Map.png 691w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/files\/2021\/05\/Map-300x175.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" \/><figcaption>Roughly where my house is in relation to Burlington and UVM. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While here, we&#8217;ve had evidence of a couple of different animals. This weekend alone I noticed a bunny and some Red-winged Blackbirds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/files\/2021\/05\/Bunny-edited-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-219\" width=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/files\/2021\/05\/Bunny-edited-1.jpg 1035w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/files\/2021\/05\/Bunny-edited-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/files\/2021\/05\/Bunny-edited-1-767x1024.jpg 767w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/files\/2021\/05\/Bunny-edited-1-768x1025.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/files\/2021\/05\/Bird-1-edited-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-223\" width=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/files\/2021\/05\/Bird-1-edited-rotated.jpg 1482w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/files\/2021\/05\/Bird-1-edited-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/files\/2021\/05\/Bird-1-edited-768x1023.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/files\/2021\/05\/Bird-1-edited-1153x1536.jpg 1153w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the past we&#8217;ve had an opossum die under our front steps, and what we believe to be red fox scat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/files\/2021\/05\/opposum-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-221\" width=\"344\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/files\/2021\/05\/opposum-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/files\/2021\/05\/opposum-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/files\/2021\/05\/opposum-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/files\/2021\/05\/opposum-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/files\/2021\/05\/opposum-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We also often get Black-capped Chickadee&#8217;s on our deck. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn&#8217;t use iNaturalist for this weekend, but I have used it at my phenology spot in the past and have found it to be somewhat clunky but overall a useful tool. I think it&#8217;s interesting to look at what NR 2 students have found and recorded and it reminds me that there are some species of plants and animals that I find really common and tend to overlook. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worldwide, I thought Ithuriel&#8217;s Spear was cool, and I wish it grew closer to Vermont! Someone in Luxemburg found a Field Maple, which I had no idea even existed. Someone in Portland, Oregon got an up-close picture of an American Shrewmole, which was also really cool. And someone in Cape Town found this plant, but wasn&#8217;t able to identify it. I think overall, looking through the observations made me realize how many different species are out there and how many I&#8217;ve never seen or even heard of. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com\/photos\/126062474\/large.jpg?1620077808\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption>@wendy1997 found this plant. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/observations\/77089055\">https:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/observations\/77089055<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I participated in my wildlife exploration around my house in Essex, Vermont, about 20 minutes outside of Burlington. While here, we&#8217;ve had evidence of a couple of different animals. This weekend alone I noticed a bunny and some Red-winged Blackbirds. In the past we&#8217;ve had an opossum die under our front steps, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/2021\/05\/03\/city-nature-challenge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;City Nature Challenge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Olivia Palmer","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/author\/oppalmer\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/oppalmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}