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A Field trip to a Local Nature Preserve

April 12, 2023 /

A few weeks ago, I accompanied my son on a school field trip. Of course, I didn’t read the email fully and ended up at the wrong place, but thankfully both locations were in our town so I only wasted a total of 30 minutes. I arrived at the nature preserve 15 minutes late. The children were listening to a presentation about animals that live in the preserve and nearby, about composting and how in the preserve, nothing was touched. Then the fun part of the field trip happened which was a hike of about 1.5 miles.

The hike was somewhat hilly and mostly circled a large pond. There were signs of beavers near the water and we also saw a beaver’s dam.

It was the first time I had seen that big of a beaver mark on a large tree. Sadly, we did not see any beaver but they were probably frightened by all of the noise the children made.

One area of the pond ran into a creek and the water was really clear. Another part was very marsh-like and we looked at the different vegetation. We only saw a couple of geese and birds on our walk.

I wore my thrifted red jacket which kept me warm and comfortable. This was one of the last colder days and the 2nd day of spring.

I looked up the difference between a lake and a pond and there is really no difference. I think most people call small lakes, ponds. When looking at the picture above, I would call the pond a lake.

The hike ended at a replica of a bald eagle’s nest. Now this was impressive: the size of a bald eagle’s nest is incredible. My son’s whole class fits in it! This was really interesting to me as there is a bald eagle’s nest at Berry College which is about an hour from where we live. I never would have imagined that it would be this large.

So that is my bit of new knowledge I am sharing with you today! Bald eagle’s nests are humonguous!

A bientĂ´t!

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