What a day at Mirror Lake State Park! With a kindergarten class from Sacred Heart School here are some of the things that we saw: turtles, a duck family, two male ducks fighting over their favorite female duck, a baby muskrat laying in the grass waiting for us to visit, a deer on our hiking trail that was not afraid of this energetic group of wee students--it gently, quietly walked off without raising its tail and a huge, dead snapping turtle that exuded its decaying odor when the wind was right.
I forgot to mention the painted turtle that was slogging through dense duck weed only to be caught by the captain of our canoe ship, me.
Gary
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Saturday, May 26, 2012
5/26/12
We have been having lots of outdoor adventures lately. One of the most exciting was with 1st graders at the Pond at the school forest--Hartje. They had been catching toad tadpoles and Dragon Fly Nymphs then one caught a newt! The kids did not get too excited, they like frogs but I sure did.
At Mirror Lake state Park we found the skeletons, I don't know the official name, of the Dragon Fly Nymphs and then some of the newly morphed Dragon Flys--it was very neat.
Dead animals have been disappearing from the Decomposition Observation Area.
The pumpkins are starting to come up in our pumpkin patch at Hartje.
Gary
At Mirror Lake state Park we found the skeletons, I don't know the official name, of the Dragon Fly Nymphs and then some of the newly morphed Dragon Flys--it was very neat.
Dead animals have been disappearing from the Decomposition Observation Area.
The pumpkins are starting to come up in our pumpkin patch at Hartje.
Gary
Sunday, May 20, 2012
May 20th, 2012
Some interesting things have happened that I have not blogged: This past week dragon flies have been morphing out. We have found many nymph skeltons and several newly morphed dragon flies. One of them was on the ground flapping its wings--I was thinking it was trying them out and drying them. When they first come out they keep their wings together and up rather than out flat like usual.
While hiking around Dutch Hollow Lake we came across a fawn just inches away from our path. It stayed just a short time while some of us got to look at it and then it got scared and ran, wobbily off.
Also at Dutch Hollow I found a baby painted turtle, just slightly larger than a quarter--the kids liked that..
At Mirror Lake, for the last week or more we have been seeing a family of ducks--just one family. Finally at Webb, the first two baby geese have shown up.
Gary
While hiking around Dutch Hollow Lake we came across a fawn just inches away from our path. It stayed just a short time while some of us got to look at it and then it got scared and ran, wobbily off.
Also at Dutch Hollow I found a baby painted turtle, just slightly larger than a quarter--the kids liked that..
At Mirror Lake, for the last week or more we have been seeing a family of ducks--just one family. Finally at Webb, the first two baby geese have shown up.
Gary
Saturday, May 12, 2012
May 12, 2012
Late Spring and summer are here. We have seen lots of turtles on the sunny days. We have seen a duck family twice at Mirror Lake State Park. One of the teachers has told me that she has seen toad eggs but I have not seen them. All Spring I have watched for the turkey Vulture kids on the rock but have not seen any. I have heard the toad trilling but have not seen them. There have been lots of Orioles at Mirror Lake making a great bird call. Earlier in May and late April I was finding snakes but I have not seen them any more. One day the kindergarten class was at Plenke's Pond and they had the best luck ever! Big Crappies and Bluegills.
Gary
Gary
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