{"id":97,"date":"2022-05-02T23:06:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T03:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pacarr\/?p=97"},"modified":"2022-05-02T23:06:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T03:06:16","slug":"bioblitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pacarr\/2022\/05\/02\/bioblitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Bioblitz!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Howdy y’all, and happy Bioblitzing! I had a lot of fun \u2013more fun than I thought I’d have\u2013 out in Centennial Woods near my phenology site visiting one last time, and I brought my good camera so I could take some pictures for the Bioblitz. For starters, it was such a nice day; it was cool, maybe low fifties with a little wind, and I couldn’t have been happier to be outside. As I entered the woods, I pulled my earbuds out of my ears, took the lens off my Canon, and started scanning what was before me with my eyes and ears. It was engaging and kind of exhilarating; I’d hear a call and whip my head around to see what was there, and that’s what led me to my first find… a gorgeous Pileated Woodpecker maybe sixty to seventy feet up in a dead pine tree. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These guys are always so special to see.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After that, I slowly made my way to my phenology site which didn’t have much in the way of wildlife, and while I love my trees \u2013Eastern Hemlocks especially\u2013 I was looking for wildlife. Not too far from my site, the melted snow had exposed the beaten-down grasslands and the brook, so I made my way over there. The first thing I noticed when I stepped up to the Brook was little fish darting around in the water, I took my best guess when entering them into iNaturalist, but I’m still not sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My best guess was Eastern Blacknose Dace, but I’m open to other suggestions!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Another find from the Brook was a few little guys I’m used to seeing in literally any body of water back home: water bugs!! This little dude reminded me of home, and so I got more pictures of them than I think a normal person would take of a water bug, but here ya go!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Technically this is called a Common Water Strider via iNaturalist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A got some very common species like a common fly and a nice pair of Mallards, but on the way out, a bird flew right over my head and landed on a tree not too far from me. I was preparing to put my camera back in my bag, but I was able to get a couple last pictures of a Red-Breasted Nuthatch! The blue coloration on its back and the gentle bronze-ish on its underbelly along with delicate coloring around its eyes and the circumstances of seeing it really made this my favorite find of the day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What a pretty little dude<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

All in all, I photographed 7 species and confidently identified 4 of them. I encountered a few others including a spider I couldn’t quite get a good picture of and a few other birds singing in the trees and flying over head I couldn’t get a great look at. iNaturalist was really pretty fun; I liked that I didn’t have to know exactly what I had, particularly when it came to the little fish and the Nuthatch. It wasn’t too hard to navigate, it was fun to have second-hand opinions on my finds, and it’s awesome exploring what people from other areas and even other countries are identifying in their own backyards! There are just so many cool little groups and being just shy of 100 million observations, iNaturalist is citizen science working to perfection; I love it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well y’all, that’s really all from me right now; I had a lot of fun in a place I’ve grown awfully fond of the past two semesters. Good luck to everyone else participating in the City Nature Challenge, and happy blitzing! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peace & love, y’all \ud83e\udd19\ud83c\udffd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Howdy y’all, and happy Bioblitzing! I had a lot of fun \u2013more fun than I thought I’d have\u2013 out in Centennial Woods near my phenology site visiting one last time, and I brought my good camera so I could take some pictures for the Bioblitz. For starters, it was such a nice day; it was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7027,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"pacarr","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pacarr\/author\/pacarr\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pacarr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pacarr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pacarr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pacarr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7027"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pacarr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pacarr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pacarr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pacarr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pacarr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pacarr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}