5/6 Blog post #12
This past weekend I took part in the City Nature Challenge and I thought it was very fun. The two places that I recorded observations was on campus at UVM and also down at Rock Point. I had an easy time using iNaturalist. It was very simple to use and I like the feature that suggests what species you might have photographed, this helped me identify some species that I was unsure of. Over the weekend I recorded 17 observations. Of these observations there were 11 different species that I encountered. This was surprising to me because I did not think I had observed the same species multiple times, however after others had given their suggestions on my observations it appears that I did.
When we looked at the other cities that participated in the City Nature Challenge in comparison with Burlington, I was surprised to see Burlington did not compare in numbers to many of these other places. I figured that since Vermont is a very outdoorsy place with a lot of natural areas, there would be more participation and more species than there was. Although, it does make some sense because the city has a much lower population than many of the other cities that competed. I was not surprised though to hear that Burlington had a higher percent of population participation. I think that marker is more significant because it shows that there was much more involvement of our community in this event.