I’ve had a lot of goodbyes with my UVM friends over the past couple weeks, but my final goodbye is to my phenology blog spot that I made a trip to about every other week over the past year. In my last trip to the Redstone Quarry I actually brought my friend with me! She …
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City Nature, Challenge Accepted
For my addition to the City Nature Challenge BioBlitz, I went down to the Redstone Quarry, and also stopped to observe some trees along the way. I first found a small red maple, and I thought the leaves were very cute. I also found an Eastern White Pine along the road to the Quarry. One …
April Sprouts
Heading into April, the bushy shrubs are starting to come back with a vengeance. While walking to the Redstone Quarry, I was poked by quite a few plants on the path that were not there last time I took a trip. I am not quite sure what this first plant was, but it was jutting …
Phenology of Burlington
While walking around the city of Burlington today, I found quite a lot of tree buds, melting ice, and sunny weather. I first took a stroll down to the Redstone Quarry to see how the phenology has changed since I last visited. I came across quite a lot of buds in the area. First I …
Back to the Quarry
Walking back to the Redstone Quarry was a nice experience to see the changes that have happened in the environment while I was gone. All of the leaves are completely off the deciduous trees in the area and it was quiet and peaceful in the surrounding area. I saw some unidentified tracks while I was …
History of the Redstone Quarry and the Burlington South End
The Burlington South End started out as being a housing place for the blue collar workers that live in the city of Burlington. The Redstone Quarry began when the people of Burlington wanted to create a new church. In order to build the new church they needed rock, which they pulled out of what was …
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Visiting Home Brings New Surroundings
While home, I went and visited Breakheart Reservation, which is in Saugus, Massachusetts. I noticed right when I got there that the patterns going on in the landscape are very different compared to the ones at the Redstone Quarry. Firstly, there is a different array of trees that are growing in Breakheart. I found that …
Event Map and New Pictures
Most of the trees in the area have began to lose their leaves other than the Northern White Cedars. There has been a drastic difference in the amount of leaves on the Sugar Maple trees and the Honey Locust trees. There was also less wildlife in the area, I can attest that too it being …
Leaves Falling and Colder Temps
There was actually quite a lot that changed in the vegetation around the Redstone Quarry in the past two weeks. Most of the trees are starting to lose their leaves, and the barberry that was on the ground was almost completely bare. I also noticed that there were quite a lot of birds in the …
First Trip to the Quarry!
Hello everyone! I chose the Redstone Quarry because it is close to my dorm building and I think the rocks there are really interesting. To get there you walk on to South Prospect Street and turn onto Ledge Road. You will get about halfway down Ledge Road, then you can look across the street and …