After missing most of a month at the pond, Professor Illagni reminded me that we should go down there, and she remembered the camera! It's a beautiful day, sunny and 65 degrees. I asked them to take photos of signs of spring and we found several, even though most plants are not up, and the trees won't leaf out for another 4-6 weeks.
On the muddiness scale of 1-10, the girls rated today a 4-5.
Panda Artist made a really good point. One of the best signs of spring are all of the people out on walks and bike rides. We also saw people fishing.
We also saw some buds on bushes, and best of all, the turtles are out. The turtles spend the winter buried in the mud, and today they were back out getting sun on branches out in the pond. (I have to say the turtles are my favorite inhabitants of the pond). We saw 3 or 4. We'll be keeping count.
At the pond there is an education center that used to be used for wildlife rehabilitation. Now they have a few animals left who are too tame or lame to go back into the woods. Professor Illagni wanted me to share those with you as well: today we got photos of Lucy (the fox), the Barn Owl (he's awesome), and the Turkey Vulture (he spends winters indoors). We didn't get photos of but saw Ethan the Red Tailed Hawk, Kaya the Coyote, and the Kestrel (smallest falcon). I will post the photos separately because I haven't yet figured out how to nicely incorporate all of the photos in a post.
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