{"id":74,"date":"2024-02-19T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T01:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pmeehanseacaver\/?p=74"},"modified":"2024-02-19T20:45:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T01:45:00","slug":"19-february-2024-wildlife-tracking-in-burlington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pmeehanseacaver\/2024\/02\/19\/19-february-2024-wildlife-tracking-in-burlington\/","title":{"rendered":"19 February 2024 – Wildlife Tracking in Burlington"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I decided to go down to the Lake Champlain waterfront in downtown Burlington to look for tracks because I was already going into town today and thought it would be interesting to see what tracks I could pick up after it snowed over the weekend. Unfortunately, snowfall continuing into the night covered up any tracks that could’ve been created last night, so the animals I was tracking had all been here in the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The area I was tracking animals was right next to the ECHO center, in park where people frequently walk their dogs, which made it harder to find tracks that I could be certain weren’t dogs. I stumbled upon the tracks of what I was certain to be a snowshoe hare due to the off-balanced landing print its hind feet left behind. This was a good sign that there were other animals that frequent the park other than dogs and their walkers.<\/p>\n\n\n

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After success with identifying the snowshoe hare, I was excited to move onto identifying other tracks in the area. After a while, I found the tracks of an animal I determined couldn’t be a dog because of the straightness of the animal’s toes and nails, as domesticated animals have much more relaxed muscles in their feet which cause them to spread out. I took out my tracks and scat guide and determined the animal to be a red fox.<\/p>\n\n\n

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This assignment honestly showed me how fun it could be to just go out and identify animal tracks. It’s a lot of fun to be outside and understand how the other creatures are interacting with the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I decided to go down to the Lake Champlain waterfront in downtown Burlington to look for tracks because I was already going into town today and thought it would be interesting to see what tracks I could pick up after it snowed over the weekend. Unfortunately, snowfall continuing into the night covered up any tracks… Continue reading 19 February 2024 – Wildlife Tracking in Burlington<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9188,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"pmeehan","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pmeehanseacaver\/author\/pmeehan\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pmeehanseacaver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pmeehanseacaver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pmeehanseacaver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pmeehanseacaver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pmeehanseacaver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pmeehanseacaver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pmeehanseacaver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pmeehanseacaver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pmeehanseacaver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pmeehanseacaver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}