For the city nature challenge, I explored Centennial Woods and went to the lakefront where I encountered many different species. I enjoyed being able to see more birds now as the weather is getting warmer, some bird species that I saw were Chickadees, Bluejays, American Robins, and a Red Cardinal. I also saw many different plant species, the one that I saw the most that we haven’t seen much of until this week was Daffodils. I enjoyed using iNaturalist, I really like to see where other people saw different animals around Burlington and it reminds me how close this city is to nature. I liked to see what other people are seeing in their cities, I looked into what people are seeing in Chicago and some of what was found really surprised me since Chicago is such an urban environment and many people would not be thinking to look for this variety of birds there.
