During the city nature challenge, I explored the intervals area and attended some of the tabling events. Christina and I went on a run / species exploration around the Burlington Wildways trail and Intervale road. We logged some species we were familiar with, and some we learned about from seek and people’s IDs via iNaturalist. …
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As the snow has all long been melted and we’ve gone from a white winter landscape to a lush green one,. so has my phenology site. It has once again been mowed, though not too recently, as the grass was about mid shin height. Over time, my site has changed with the seasons. It has …
Just an update as we’ve been having some balmy weather here in Burlington. I revisited my red oak here in Burlington, but it seems that there hasn’t been any progress in budding (ignore my crusty hand this is the first week it’s been out of a cast/splint in over a month). This could be just …
I was unable to revisit my tree in CT, so I used a red oak here in Burlington. This red oak seems to still be in the bud phase, with no signs of flowering just yet. There was still some snow on the ground, but it is melting quickly and will likely last only a …
Since I have come back to CT for spring break, I didn’t have the chance to visit my phenology site. Instead, I chose to document a northern red oak in my backyard (I’ll call this “somewhere nearby” as specified in the blog guidelines). Red oak dominate Connecticut’s forests (despite the fact that the charter oak, …
For my February phenology site blog post, I visited Centennial woods to track animals with fellow NR student Sarah O’Leary and non-NR student Vero Verbitsky. We saw a rabbit, ab=n d were quick enough to snap a photo. We found tracks of dogs, otters, and raccoons (pictured below). The large dog prints on the trail …
I know I titled my last phenology site post my “final” one, but here we are, back again! I visited my phenology site January 30th, around 5:15pm. It was getting dark and the weather was cold and snowy. There were about 7 inches of snow on the ground, just enough to cover my pant cuffs. …
I took my final visit to my phenology site on Friday, December 9, 2022. The area had been mowed once again, reasserting the human impact that we have on this area. This repeated mowing leads to a lack of understory, save the lower lying wet areas and the areas and the fallen trees. These fallen …
Over Thanksgiving Break I returned back to my hometown of Cheshire, CT. There, I ended up visiting one of my favorite locations, Sunset Rock. Sunset Rock is actually quite far from Cheshire, but I visited twice. Once on the first Sunday of break, and again on the second Saturday of break. Sunset rock is a …
The leaves have pretty much all fallen off of the southern area hardwood stand’s trees (stick season has been entered), and the grass has not been mowed since my last visit.