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This year, our homeschool group has formed a Nature Study group. Two weeks ago was our first meeting. We went on a nature scavanger hunt looking for things that were on this list a fellow mom brought. You can see the list here at her blog.

We met up at Breakheart Reservation here in Saugus, MA. It was a beautiful warm day. I believe we had about 15-20 families there, so we were a little bit noisy at first, but once the group got on with the hunt, things got a little quiet.

Chantelle went one way with her friends, while Matt (who had a half a day at school that day) and I went another way with most of the group. He started out looking for things, but he had so much pent up energy from sitting in class, that he eventually just started running around. He would only stop when he saw a chipmunk run out on the path. There were tons of them all over too!

I got "attacked" by an acorn too! One fell or got thrown at me, who knows. Those chipmuks there were just as nuts as the ones they were gathering. I was causally walking along the path with some friends, when out of no where this acorn falls and hits me on the head and lands on the clipboard I was holding. It freaked me out, but we all had a good laugh.

We did see a squirrel drey (nest) up high in a tree. Here is what one looks like:

Notice the bunch of leaves and twigs in a huge mass? Thats the drey.

Matt taking a rest in a tree. We talked about the moss and lichen that was on and around the tree for a little bit before he ran off to climb another rock or random thing around.

Octobers meeting will be at the Ipswich Wildlife Sanctuary in Topsfield Ma. It is going to be on birds. I am not sure I can make it to that one because the meetings run from 1-3 and I have to get matt at 2:40 from school and I have to work at 3:30 . So we will see.