The areas that I explored during the urban Bio-blitz happening in the Greater Burlington area was parts of Central Campus and downtown Burlington. I found that my experience using INaturalist throughout my first two semesters has been good, and I believe that this app is very user friendly and helpful in identifying/uploading species. I had encountered a few different species. These species were sugar maple, Japanese holly shrubs, a paper birch and a species oak that I couldn’t determine. Something I found really interesting about the other reports was how different the species differenced in the change of their phonology. I saw for example a certain species of shrub that hasn’t been identified yet, but it was in full bloom and contained flowers and buds. I also think it’s really cool how many cities are participating in this challenge.
