{"id":43,"date":"2024-03-26T12:01:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T16:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgleba\/?p=43"},"modified":"2024-03-26T12:01:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T16:01:01","slug":"third-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgleba\/2024\/03\/26\/third-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As opposed to what the fresh snow on the ground is telling us, we are officially in Spring. With this, I expected to see a resurgence of life in the forest behind the Redstone campus. Instead of this, I came back to the normal winter lull. Besides from a few distant songs, which I was unable to identify, and one robin that scurried along the snow for a few feet, there was no evidence of emerging birds. Budding on the maples, birches, and beech was incredibly sparce, and there were no examples which I could get a close picture of. The only evidence of animal activity in the area was an abundance of human footprints, as the area is somewhat trafficked with walkers, and a canine track, which I determined to be a domesticated breed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"481\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgleba\/files\/2024\/03\/thumbnail_IMG_4333.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgleba\/files\/2024\/03\/thumbnail_IMG_4333.jpg 481w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgleba\/files\/2024\/03\/thumbnail_IMG_4333-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"481\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgleba\/files\/2024\/03\/thumbnail_IMG_4337.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgleba\/files\/2024\/03\/thumbnail_IMG_4337.jpg 481w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgleba\/files\/2024\/03\/thumbnail_IMG_4337-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"481\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgleba\/files\/2024\/03\/thumbnail_IMG_4336.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgleba\/files\/2024\/03\/thumbnail_IMG_4336.jpg 481w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgleba\/files\/2024\/03\/thumbnail_IMG_4336-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As opposed to what the fresh snow on the ground is telling us, we are officially in Spring. With this, I expected to see a resurgence of life in the forest behind the Redstone campus. Instead of this, I came back to the normal winter lull. Besides from a few distant songs, which I was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgleba\/2024\/03\/26\/third-winter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Third Winter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"tgleba","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgleba\/author\/tgleba\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgleba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgleba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgleba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgleba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgleba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgleba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgleba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgleba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgleba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tgleba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}