For today’s posting, I decided stay around campus as sometimes I forget, I barely know where anything is at this place! My adventure happened to start at the medical center this morning where I got dropped off by the bus, initially I was just going to make my walk home and go back to bed, however the temperature was so nice and I decided a little adventure would be good for me. I began walking and pulled out my new handy tool “iNaturalist” and off I went. I stopped in front of the Jefford’s Hall community gardens area and looked around. It was pretty snow covered and not too exciting in this weather but one species I was able to identify there was Hops! There was also American Asters which are a fan favorite, iNaturalist was really good at identifying these plants just based on leaves. I continued on my walk home but decided to go past Uheights and walk down to redstone. I passed quite a few American Sycamores and Green Ashes while trodding through Athletic campus. When passing my building I passed my favorite paper birches.
Finally I arrived on Redstone campus, there’s a nice field behind a couple of the buildings that I was hoping would have tracks for me to sniff out, unfortunately due to the intense amount of snow melting, there was nothing noteworthy. However, I saw this bird perched at the top of a tree, I snapped a pic and iNaturalist identified it as a common grackle! This bird was found right outside of WDW on one of the trees behind the building. Finally, I was tired out and headed home to take my long awaited nap.
