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Today it was beautiful - over 70 and sunny! For N Wisconsin, that's pretty good! In the evening a bit before dusk, my oldest 2 kids and I went on a walk to the river on the property here. They wanted to throw a line into the river as some people say there are brook trout out here, but so far we have yet to see one. Unfortunately we didn't see any fish but we did see some other interesting things while out! We saw:
More buck scrapes (since our last nature walk)
More places where animal cuttings are being made - either beaver or muskrat (see nature walk blog from last week HERE)
Found a cocoon - we pulled off the branch where it's attached and brought it home and put it in a terrarium. Here's a pic of it!
a beaver or muskrat! I was quite a ways away and my oldest ds was finishing a couple more casts into the river when I turned around to look and saw an animal moving down the river. He saw the animal too and pretty soon afterwards I heard a VERY LOUD splash/smack! It sounded like a large log being thrown into the river! I would guess it was a beaver as I was quite some distance away and I don't think I would have noticed a muskrat as much from that distance. My ds saw it as well though not at the moment when it dove.
Earlier today we were looking around quite a bit around the trees around our house and found a few interesting things. I'll type more on that and take a few pics of things we noticed around there another day. We also were able to do some natural journaling with artwork as well.
So it was a great, productive day in the nature department! I'm excited to see what comes out of the cocoon (hopeflly)! We also have 2 other cecropia moth cocoons in our butterfly keeper that we caught as caterpillars last summer. We're hoping those will emerge this Spring as well! I love watching and learning about God's incredible world!
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