TRIP 93

We went on a field trip to the Duck Pond on April 4, 2013. We had a very special guest accompany us on our trip. Moose 93! We saw a variety of interesting things like: hairy poop, a super good track, a kingfisher, and a eagle. The track we found was a coyote and it was so good we could cast it. It was the first casting of the year! This was the second time we went to the Duck Pond. We went there twice because we're going to every site twice to see if there has been any changes. Moose 93 was with us the whole time!

 

The Squirrely Trip Returns

We left to go to the Airport Ditch for the second time on 3-28-13 to see if our site changed.  We saw a squirrel and we snuck up to it and took lots of pictures when it was eating a pine cone.  After it was a  done eating a pine cone it dropped it.  

We also saw some wolf tracks and followed them for a while.  The wolf tracks were huge!  We think it was chasing a grouse because we think we saw grouse tracks and the wolf tracks were going in circles.  Or it was just chasing its tail!

   

On this field trip two moms came with us: Angela and Tanya.  It was fun and I think they had fun too.

Nature Journaling Next to Glen's Ditch

Nagoonberry Trail Field Report

The 4th and 5th grade class went to Glen’s Ditch for our field trip on the 14th of March. We biked to our study site. While we were biking my bike made a squeaky noise, a squirrel ran out of the woods and I was kind of chased by the squirrel. It saw us and ran into the woods again. It was sunny, and it was 34 degrees fahrenheit. It felt like a heatwave. Our study site was a deciduous thicket, there was no snow on the ground, and we saw bald eagles circling some trees. We also saw moose tracks, moose browse, and 94 piles of moose scat.There was not as much moose scat, if we compare it to Ula’s house. The amount was smaller than what we saw near the airport. We saw crows, ravens, magpies, scoters, cross-bills, and we saw a dead northern harrier. We had a quiet minute and heard Canada geese and the wind. Then we left the Nagoonberry Trail and headed back for school.

The northern harrier was found dead near the Nagoonberry Trail, by the ditch. I think that it died of starvation in the winter because it was small and looked young. I noticed that it was on it’s stomach, with it’s wings kind of spread out to its sides. We nature journaled the northern harrier and I drew its tail and back. It was kind of hard to draw it because its back was dried up and shriveled with rotted back muscles. It was a bit unusual to draw the northern harrier because it was dead, but I enjoyed it.

Birds Under the Fence!

Redpolls in the Trees

Bird Watching From the Classroom

Redpoll Photos Taken by Jack

Redpolls in the Garden (April 3, 2013)

Redpolls in Our Garden!

This week there have been so many redpolls at our garden I can't even count all of them!  The redpolls have been scarfing all of our bird seed down faster then we can fill our bird feeders.  We can't stop looking at the red polls and sometimes Miss Jessie has a hard time getting our attention!

The Fascinating Trip

We went on a field trip on 3/7/13 to a conifer dominated forest at Greg Streveler’s house. We went to collect data for our year long study. There was some fascinating things we saw like squirrel middens and flying squirrel scat. The scat was on a dead tree. If you have seen flying squirrel sign you are lucky because flying squirrel sign is really rare. Also Greg could identify that the scat was flying squirrel because of its shape. After that we walked a little and saw highbush cranberry skins from a grosbeak. We only saw 15 piles of moose scat on this trip. We saw less moose scat because there wasn’t a lot of food for them.  Have you ever seen a flying squirrel or seen its droppings?