{"id":98,"date":"2025-02-23T19:41:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T00:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/?p=98"},"modified":"2025-02-23T19:41:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T00:41:48","slug":"wildlife-in-burlington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/2025\/02\/23\/wildlife-in-burlington\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife in Burlington!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-yellow-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-yellow-background-color has-background\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">This week I visited places around and within Burlington collecting observations!  <\/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-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"333\" data-id=\"106\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2025\/02\/a716665c-8003-4bd2-8e66-822c0024db78.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2025\/02\/a716665c-8003-4bd2-8e66-822c0024db78.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2025\/02\/a716665c-8003-4bd2-8e66-822c0024db78-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pease Mountain UVM Natural Area<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"333\" data-id=\"107\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2025\/02\/1b8627f6-555d-46f2-9cac-6d311e338e91.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2025\/02\/1b8627f6-555d-46f2-9cac-6d311e338e91.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2025\/02\/1b8627f6-555d-46f2-9cac-6d311e338e91-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jericho Research Forest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-yellow-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-yellow-background-color has-background is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Places that I Visited!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Pease Mountain UVM Natural Area<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jericho Research Forest<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Centennial Woods<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Trinity Campus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-yellow-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-yellow-background-color has-background is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What I Found!<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2025\/02\/a4e81f23-3bac-46ef-aa73-8c90aa99d075.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-103 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2025\/02\/a4e81f23-3bac-46ef-aa73-8c90aa99d075.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2025\/02\/a4e81f23-3bac-46ef-aa73-8c90aa99d075-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">-I mostly saw grey squirrel tracks. They are very easy to determine based on appearance and location. Most of the tracks I found lead to and from various trees, which was a key clue for me. With the fresh snow it was easy to spot these tracks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-I unfortunately didn&#8217;t seem to find much more than squirrel prints so I didn&#8217;t have much trouble deciphering the animal\/species. Since the snow was so powdery smaller animal tracks were much harder to find or see at all.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-yellow-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-yellow-background-color has-background\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>-you can easily find my observations linked in the tab to your left!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-yellow-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-yellow-background-color has-background is-style-wide\" \/>\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-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"333\" data-id=\"104\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2025\/02\/d64df878-299a-44fb-b0df-dee8f1810d61.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2025\/02\/d64df878-299a-44fb-b0df-dee8f1810d61.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2025\/02\/d64df878-299a-44fb-b0df-dee8f1810d61-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Campus Conditions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"333\" data-id=\"109\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2025\/02\/1145ff62-b770-4f67-8649-2cc703aa1986.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2025\/02\/1145ff62-b770-4f67-8649-2cc703aa1986.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/files\/2025\/02\/1145ff62-b770-4f67-8649-2cc703aa1986-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">More Tracks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-yellow-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-yellow-background-color has-background is-style-default\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I visited places around and within Burlington collecting observations! Places that I Visited! What I Found! -I mostly saw grey squirrel tracks. They are very easy to determine based on appearance and location. Most of the tracks I found lead to and from various trees, which was a key clue for me. With &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/2025\/02\/23\/wildlife-in-burlington\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wildlife in Burlington!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9727,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"sjacob15","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/author\/sjacob15\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9727"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjacob15\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}