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I have chosen to observe a community Garden in the city. Below are my notes:
Designation: City Park, community garden
Time: 1247 hours
Date: 03-09-2020
Weather: sunny, clear sky, hot and dry, minimal breeze, 21 degrees celsius
Seasonality: Summer, approaching fall
Study Area: Community Garden at 1645 East 8th Avenue Vancouver BC. Latitude: 49.2635 Longitude: -123.0711. Study area is generally small, approximately 2 houses worth of land (~1500 sq. feet)
Location: 2 bee hives located towards northern boarder of area, shed in north western corner and a park bench is located centrally on northern boarder. The Western boarder backs onto a large house, the Northern boarder is contained by a chain-link fence and you can hear the subway train in the distance. The Southern and Eastern boarder are marked by a street (Commercial Dr, and East 8th ave). There are approximately 12 garden planters, and 2-4 pedestrians visited during my 20 minute stay. Many bees, flies, moths, butterflies observed. 1 bird seen.
Topography: grassy flat, likely human-made
Vegetation: grassland with ~12 large human-made wooden planters containing various vegetation, mostly edible plants (e.g kale, herbs, tomatoes, etc.) and flowers (unidentifiable)
Potential Subjects – Bees and other pollinators
Questions about this observation
- Which flowers or plants are most frequently visited and why
- Which time of day and during which weather conditions are honeybees most active
- Do honeybees prefer human planted vegetation or naturally growing vegetation to pollinate?
Nice blog post and field journal, while your study area is small, you have given though to questions you could ask and they seem like they could all work. For question 1, you might have difficulty determining why, unless you can work something into your study design, though the first part of the question will work. For question 3, is there enough natural vegetation compared to the garden plots to ask this question?
Also, remember to categorize your posts under my name to make it easy for me to find them.