Nature's Neighborhoods camp is off to a great start! We are a small group but we love to explore and observe and we've seen a lot of cool things.
Below are just some of the highlights of what we've done and seen over the last two days:
- explored the 3 different habitats of Tifft on a morning hike (you'll have to ask your campers what the habitats are!)
- saw a beaver dam and an abandoned beaver lodge
- saw a plethora of different types and sizes of bugs -our highlight was the young praying mantis Elena spotted amidst the gravel in the parking lot (photos will be forthcoming)
- catbirds calling and eating
- our resident geese group
- lots of frogs and turtles out at the marsh
- an unusual fight between an osprey and a heron-the heron was perched in a dead snag and the osprey just kept flying in circles, each time trying to knock the heron from the branch it was perched in
- a whole morning of fishing, with catches of rock bass and bluegill
- We have also played some games which include: Everybody's It, A Bee Nectar Game, Moose, Morph (a nature version of rock/paper/scissors), Lame Duck, a fish migration board game (which was very dramatic this afternoon)
- Identifying different aquatic habitats and using a dichotomous key (two different versions)
- We also started "developing" some waterfront property for an activity later this week.
Tomorrow we will be meeting our ecologist, Dave Spiering, and helping him and our seasonal biotech, Andrew, plant some new trees and water them and explore more about the forest here at Tifft.
Thanks again for your support and I look forward to 3 more days of exploration!
Miss Caryn
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