Hello Blog! Today, during the four-day BioBlitz, I explored the greater Burlington, VT area. Due to the super awesome sunny weather, I went down to North Beach Campground to get some sun and observe some nature! While I was there, I saw many things, including oak trees, thorn bushes, which I believe were Japanese barberry, eastern white pines, squirrels, ducks, and honeysuckles. There were many other species there around the campground, but not in the spot I had chosen.
As I sit down in the sun to write this and reflect on my experience today I realize I had a great time. Inaturalist was super easy and functional to use at North Beach, and it even helped me a lot with some of the identifications. There was also this really interesting nest in the leaves, which definitely had some type of larger animal living in it, such as a porcupine or skunk.
When I looked up City Nature Challenge on the projects in iNaturalist I came across this one from 2020 in South Gloucestershire, which I had never heard of this place before and had to look it up, turns out it is in southwest England, which is really interesting as it was the first city to pop up, even though it is so far away from here. But there are many species on this project around 1130 species were identified with 5469 observations. Species like the Marsh Crane fly and the Maple gall mite were identified, which I have never heard of before.
Regardless, I really enjoyed participating in this! Till next time blog!!
