{"id":179,"date":"2025-04-28T21:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T01:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vayala\/?p=179"},"modified":"2025-04-28T21:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T01:35:10","slug":"city-nature-challenge-bioblitz-4-28-25-red-rocks-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vayala\/2025\/04\/28\/city-nature-challenge-bioblitz-4-28-25-red-rocks-park\/","title":{"rendered":"City Nature Challenge BioBlitz 4\/28\/25: Red Rocks Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During the BioBlitz, I visited Red Rocks park. I took the Lake Trail and stopped along the beach access and a few lookout points. While walking, I stopped to identify as many plant species as I could, as well as a few other organisms amphibians, birds, and fungi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My experience using iNaturalist went really well, and I enjoyed the simplicity of the app. I also really liked how I could use Seek to identify something and upload it directly from Seek to iNaturalist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was able to identify and upload 18 species to iNaturalist, including some that I was able to identify without using Seek or iNaturalist. This included red berried elder, eastern white pine, northern cedar, red oak, ostrich fern, lesser burdock, orange day-lily, purple crownvetch, eastern hemlock, cedar rusts, eastern red-back salamanders, rock polypody, dutchman’s breeches, black cherry, early meadow-rue, buffleheads, common earthworms, and yellow trout lily. I was not able to upload some bird species to iNaturalist, but I also encountered Black-capped Chickadees, American Crows, Song Sparrows, and Tufted Titmice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Common Earthworm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Black Cherry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dutchman’s Breeches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cedar-apple Rust<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rock Polypody<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ostrich Fern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Looking over the Limestone Bluff Cedar-Pine Forest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pretending to be in the PNW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Blundstone that got stuck in the mud<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Red-back Salamanders<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

One thing I found interesting in reports from other cities around the world is that because it’s a city<\/em> nature challenge, the observations are often everyday sightings for people and can be found in their own back yard or in their neighborhood. Oftentimes, I myself feel like I have to go somewhere thats designated as a “natural area” to feel like I am “in nature,” but this challenge is a kind of a nice reminder that nature is all around us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the BioBlitz, I visited Red Rocks park. I took the Lake Trail and stopped along the beach access and a few lookout points. While walking, I stopped to identify as many plant species as I could, as well as a few other organisms amphibians, birds, and fungi. My experience using iNaturalist went really well, … Continue reading City Nature Challenge BioBlitz 4\/28\/25: Red Rocks Park<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"vayala","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vayala\/author\/vayala\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vayala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vayala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vayala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vayala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vayala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vayala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vayala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vayala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vayala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vayala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}