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Blog Posts

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    Necedah National wildlife refuge was the destination today. the children learned about birds, water bugs--we saw water scorpions, scuds, mites, leeches and a tadpole, But we also saw Swans.  One of the more interesting things for me was very large scat, with bones--Bear? Wolf? bobcat? Lynx?  I don't know but I have never seen scat like that around here.
    Posted May 7, 2018, 6:24 PM by soac@rucls.net
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    It has been a long, long time.  My trail cam on the Decomposition site is only capturing people observing and some Turkey Vultures--no coyotes, foxes or raccoons!
    Friday on a trip with 4th graders from St. Peters to Mirror Lake we saw a bunch of broken turtle shells.  We suspected they had been eaten by raccoons but then we found 4 baby painted turtles!  The kids (and me) we loved it.
    Frogs are croaking but I have not heard the toads yet.  I am expecting to hear them this coming week.
    I am also hoping to  do some gardening at Hartje this week with Loganville School.
    Posted May 6, 2018, 3:09 PM by soac@rucls.net
  • 4/4/15
    The Frogs are back!  I have heard, loud and clear, Spring Peepers, Chorus Frogs and Wood Frogs.  The Cranes have also been back for about two weeks.  It is great to have all these Friends back
    Posted Apr 4, 2015, 2:22 PM by soac@rucls.net
  • 9/29/14
    Went canoeing today at Mirror lake State Park with 2nd graders.  It was warm, calm and beautiful with the changing colors.  We saw on turtle, Bryazoans on the dock posts, lots of ducks, a heron and lilly pads.
      It was great to be canoeing.  By the end of the day it was much colder and rainy.
    Gary
    Posted Sep 29, 2014, 6:31 PM by soac@rucls.net
  • 7/31/14
    It has been a long time.  Four SOAC Trips:  Loons at Turtle and Big Bay, Cormorants at Big Bay, some of the kids say they saw bears on our way up north,  a huge rabbit at Amnicon,  lots of larvae in the Amnicon River (looked like leeches).
    Yesterday at Mirror Lake we found lots of Bryazoans in the water.  It made us wonder why Mirror Lake is the home to so many and we wished we could find more information about them.
    Gary
    Posted Jul 31, 2014, 9:32 AM by soac@rucls.net
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