Author: abbbreen12
The cave
I think that maybe bats could have lived there. Or possums could have live there too or bugs too. This is how I think it was made by – erosion in the earth. How do you think?
Spring Azure Butterfly
On the nature trail we found a butterfly called a Spring Azure or Celastrim Ladon. It is located in North America, Canada and Alaska (North America). It got it’s name by it’s blue color (Azure) and it’s out in the spring.
Baby Pine Tree
When my class and I went on the nature trail we saw lots of trees. One of the trees we saw was a baby pine tree. Baby pine trees are tiny pine trees. It was smaller than my hand! Pine trees are different than other trees because pine trees have pine needles on them and not leaves. The pine tree I found was a conifer.
Sprouting Jewelweed
Sprouting Jewelweed starts out small but it can grow 5 feet tall. The second name is Touch-me-not because when you rub their seed pods they explode and the seeds spread.
Pokeberries
When the poke berries sprout into the world they will grow to 4 to 12 feet. The birds will eat the berries for a meal. Poke berries have a red stem and odd berries. Their berries are black.
Red Tailed Hawk
On the weather vane on top of Abbot School, a Red Tailed Hawk sat on the W. Red Tailed Hawks have white and black feathers on their wings.The feathers are tan around the shoulders. The head is a mix of brown and white feathers. The tail, of course, is red. The underside is a pinkish color. The Red Tailed Hawk is a carnivore. It eats small mice, birds, and chipmunks. They have huge wings so they can ride the wind. Red Tailed Hawks are very big and beautiful animals.
Tipped Bird Houses
What? Bird houses of all kinds, tipped over? My class and I saw many bird houses tipped over to their side. We don’t know if the bird houses were tipped to be cleaned for the long winter, or if they were tipped during the terrible ice storm. My class and I hope to see the bird houses back up in the spring. Then we will determine if they were tipped over to be cleaned.
Red Maple
On the nature trail, I saw a red maple. A red maple grows to about 27m. It’s leaves turn a brilliant red in Fall. The bark is gray and thin. It grows reddish flowers in the spring. Red Maples live in wet or moist soil of stream banks, valleys, swamps, uplands, and sometimes dry bridges. Pioneers made ink, and cinnamon-brown and black dyes from the bark.
Pokeweed
On the nature trail we found a berry bush named pokeweed. Pokeweed is a flowering bush. The flowers are tiny and white in long clusters. When the flowers die, berries take their place. The berries are black. In the colonial days, they used to put the juice of the berries in cheap wine to make it look better. The colonists also used it as a dye. I tried dyeing some cloth and the color turned out to be the same color as the stem, magenta. The berries and roots are poisonous. The leaves (which are not poisonous) are large and oval shaped, and darkish green.
