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?

Collecting Data in a Conifer Dominated Forest

Grosbeak Sign from 3-7-13

Flying Squirrel Scat from 3-7-13

The Even Crappier Trip (2/14)

We went on a field trip to Ula’s house, and it is a meadow/marsh. We saw 175 piles of moose poop. After that we saw coyote poop and goose poop. We saw two species of birds; canada geese and white winged crossbills. Then we went into Ula’s house and ate lunch. For a desert Tania made us cream puffs with extra whip cream and hot fudge and raspberries. After that Tania let us use Kevin’s collared moose tracking device. We picked up almost all of the moose but four of them.  Then we walked back to the van and drove back to the school.