{"id":122,"date":"2023-03-26T13:51:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T17:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/?p=122"},"modified":"2023-03-26T13:51:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T17:51:03","slug":"the-beginning-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/2023\/03\/26\/the-beginning-of-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"The beginning of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I visited my small creek and immediately noticed a higher water level then normal. The groups was muddy and had the texture of a full sponge. There were tiny spaces all around the creek in which water was flowing into the creek, second picture. This is because of melting of the snow and the increased spring showers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I noticed a pair of mallards in the water, which might be the same pair that I noticed at the beginning of March. I wonder if they will nest here for the season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My Red Maple does not have many new changes from the beginning of March. Although the buds are becoming more green and will soon become leaves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"129\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0434-1-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0434-1-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0434-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0434-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0434-1-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0434-1.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (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\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"131\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0435-1-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0435-1-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0435-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0435-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0435-1-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0435-1.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (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\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"130\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0437-1-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0437-1-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0437-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0437-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0437-1-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0437-1.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"133\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0440-1-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0440-1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0440-1-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0440-1-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_0440-1.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (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\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"740\" data-id=\"132\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/files\/2023\/03\/inaturalist-3-1-1024x740.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/files\/2023\/03\/inaturalist-3-1-1024x740.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/files\/2023\/03\/inaturalist-3-1-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/files\/2023\/03\/inaturalist-3-1-768x555.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/files\/2023\/03\/inaturalist-3-1.png 1257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I visited my small creek and immediately noticed a higher water level then normal. The groups was muddy and had the texture of a full sponge. There were tiny spaces all around the creek in which water was flowing into the creek, second picture. This is because of melting of the snow and the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/2023\/03\/26\/the-beginning-of-spring\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The beginning of Spring&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8277,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"rlunken","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/author\/rlunken\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/rlunken\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}