The first thing Sophie and Charis noticed were all the snails. They were everywhere - on the sand, on rocks. They were rather concerned not to step on them. We carefully put two into our 'bug jar' complete with a layer of wet sand and a leaf and put it in the rucksack to take back with us.
The girls enjoyed poking around in the river weed with sticks, and we noticed a few frogs a bit further upstream. We couldn't get very close to them but managed to take a photo before they dived into the water.Other things we saw: a lizard, lots of oak leaves and acorns and unfortunately lots of rubbish from people's picnics (a common sight in this part of the world where people don't think so much about damage to the environment.
On the way back to the car we saw about forty or so pond skaters on the lake. It was funny to watch them skating about on top of the water. We tried to take a photo but it didn't come out well.
Back at home we talked about our nature walk and what we might like to draw for our family nature journal (which we started a few months ago. Charis decided she'd like to draw a frog and Sophie drew the snails from our bug jar, which we later deposited near the sand pit in our garden - we hope they'll be all right there.
Oh, and our dead animal this week? A dead worm in one of the rock pools.
You have a wonderful place for nature study there at the water. I think snails are interesting too and I am so glad to hear they made it into the nature journal. Your entry sounded like a perfect OHC time and I thank you so much for sharing your entry.
ReplyDeleteCould I use the first photo as the OHC Photo of the Week? Please let me know: harmonyfinearts@yahoo.com.
Thanks again.