Posted in Nature Study

Once a month, our hoemschool group gets together to go on a nature walk or learn a little about nature around us. This month is was my turn to lead (and my kids weren't even there. LOL). I chose to go on a walk and see if we could see any tracks left behind by some of our local wildlife.

We all met up at Breakheart Reservation in Saugus, MA. It was a cold day, but we were all bundled up. I passed out a handout on the most common animal tracks you can find in MA as well as a couple of pages from My Nature Journal by Adrienne Olmstead on animal tracks. Then we all headed out to see what we could see. Not having any kids with me (daughter is in Florida and son goes to school), I was able to take plenty of pretty snow pictures.

Us heading out

You can bearly make out the paved path that we walked on. There are tons of off road paths to take, but most of us didn't venture out that far.

I just love how the snow sticks to the trees.

A little snow covered stream.

The poor tree all bent over from all the snow. But isn't it so pretty?

It was so georgous there that I could have easily filled up my camera (over 500 pics) with pictures.

We did manage to find some tracks. We saw fox, coyote, rabbit and maybe a dear. It was hard to tell from all the human and dog tracks around. This is a very dog friendly place, so we knew that there would be dog tracks to check out.