February: Survival<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The animal that we found the most evidence of\nwas the Gray Squirrel. The gray squirrel lives mostly in nests in trees, although\nin Winter sometimes you can find it in underground dwellings. The grey squirrels\nthat we found had both types of nests. During the day the squirrel will gather\nnuts and seeds, and bring its previously made nut stashes back to its nest (Lawniczak). Usually it avoids the heat of the\nday, although in winter oftentimes you will find it active whenever there is\nlight. At night the squirrel tends to sleep and groom itself. The diet of a\nGray Squirrel is large. It eats tree bark, seeds, tree buds, berries, tree\nbark, acorns, walnuts, other nuts, mushrooms, and more (Lawniczak). They have a very large number of\npredators. The list includes humans, hawks<\/a>,\nweasels<\/a>,\nraccoons<\/a>,\nfoxes<\/a>, domestic<\/a> and feral cats<\/a>,\nsnakes<\/a>,\nowls<\/a>, and dogs<\/a> (Lawniczak). One of the species that interact with\nit the most are humans. Whenever humans come the squirrels are scared into\ntheir nests and food stores and must sit there and lose light while we tromp\nall over the place. Another living thing that interacts with them are sugar maple\ntrees. In the two nests we found sugar maple trees to be the most prominent\ntree in the area. In the underground nest there were large twig sugar maple\nspecies that surrounded the nest and seemed to offer some sort of protection. Then\nthe trees that the nest were in were sugar maples. It seems that the squirrels\nreally like the sugar maple for their home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since the last visit a lot of\nchanges have occurred in our area. When we first went it was the end of a cold\nsnap, and snow was forecasted for the day. The temperature was incredibly low,\nand the ice was incredibly thick. When we went this time the ice was not even\nvisible. Snow about six inches thick covered everything. If you pushed hard\nwith your foot you could get down to water. Another thing is that the trees\nseemed stronger. At the last check whenever you touched a tree limb it would\nsnap off. This time when you touched the branches\u2019 they just snapped back at\nyou. Another thing is that all of the icicles had melted down to a quarter of\ntheir previous size. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Works Cited:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lawniczak, M. K. (n.d.). Sciurus\ncarolinensis (eastern gray squirrel). Retrieved from https:\/\/animaldiversity.org\/accounts\/Sciurus_carolinensis\/<\/a>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February: Survival The animal that we found the most evidence of was the Gray Squirrel. The gray squirrel lives mostly in nests in trees, although in Winter sometimes you can find it in underground dwellings. The grey squirrels that we found had both types of nests. During the day the squirrel will gather nuts and … Continue reading February: Survival<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5797,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/shulsman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/shulsman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/shulsman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/shulsman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/shulsman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/shulsman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/shulsman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/shulsman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/shulsman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/shulsman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}