Wildlife

While camping we learned about all the trees and plants around us. For example the difference between a Lady Fern, Bracken Fern, Maiden's Hair and Sword ferns. We also saw tons of wildlife, the most exciting was when we found 2 deer roaming around our campsite after we came back from a hike. We also saw Addy's favorite, garter snakes. She was not very excited to realize there were snakes, while Cameron was thrilled to go "snake hunting" using marshmallows as bait to catch snakes. Hard to believe but they were not successful in their hunting efforts. There were bunnies and birds and bats all around the campsite and there were trout in the lake. We also saw the beaver each night swimming through the pond and fell asleep listening to the frogs. I think my proudest moment was when the nature guide was explaining the ecosystem and explained about all of the living beings in the system like the plants and animals and then asked what the name was for non-living, never living parts of the environment and Adelyn answered with "abiotic factors".