Category: Post 3: Ongoing Field Observations
Turner’s Bog on-going observations
Ongoing Field Observations at Turner’s Bog Gorse (Ulex europaeus) is extremely competitive and displaces native plants, often creating a shrub layer where none existed previously. Established patches of gorse can…
Ongoing observations from St. Vital Park
11th April 12, 2022, between 2:35-3:00 pm Weather was cloudy with blowing windy at 27km/hr at 3°C-4°C The water level reduced quite a bit and I identified that the soil…
The Affect of Temperature on Bird Activity
Based on the availability of a healthy riparian zone in a nearby location with an abundance of bird species, I decided to observe the number of these birds from a…
Camas Lily Herbivory
Date: March 24, 2022, 8:00-8:45 am Weather: Partly Cloudy, 9°C, calm no wind. Observations: One of the first things that I noticed on my visit is that the camas lily…
Ongoing Field Observations in Griffith Woods
Throughout the past two weeks I have visited my area of study several times. At each visit I postulated different biological attributes and relationships to investigate. In my first post…
Barnacles
Blog Post #3 : Ongoing field Observations Date: Friday, March 11th, 2022. Time of Visit: 1730-1845. Location: Sheltered lagoon region, to the west side of Goose Spit Regional Park. 49.6653°…
Continued Field Observations, Vegetative Structural Layers Between Slope Aspects
Over the past few weeks, I have returned to Nose Hill Park a few times, trying to narrow in on a biological attribute to study. I have finally pinned it…
Success of Douglas Maples
The last few times I have been out to my area of study I have adjusted the area of study. Instead of comparing the species diversity in a single square…
Ongoing field observations
While revisiting the spawning channels I became aware of how many different bird species were present and how abundant fish carcasses were throughout the channels. I identified three different areas…
Examining ground cover across an environmental gradient in a second growth forest
On January 22, 2022, I returned to the same stand of second growth CWH forest (~ 80 years old) with the intention to examine ground cover across an environmental gradient,…