Monday, November 19, 2012


Nature Journal Entry

We follow the Handbook of Nature Study blog (see the link above) and share our own "Nature Challenges" on a blog carnival. Today the Nature Challenge was to find signs of mammals.




Here is the first mammal we encountered. Dapple lives in the pasture behind our house (he's not ours, though).

We all headed for this spot immediately. This is the Groundhog's hole. He's been living there for years. 

Ana and Dapple

Could this be a sign of a mammal? It looks like a walnut has been cracked open ...perhaps by a squirrel.

The next few pictures are definitely signs of mammals....human  mammals! Above is the creative arrangement of wood, stone, bricks, and scrap metal into a pretend city....some human mammals did this!


Unfortunately, this (undisposed of)  beer can is also a sign of mammal activity, down by the creek.

Ana found this mammal sign IN THE CREEK. How did it get in the creek? We can only guess.
And finally, here comes our favorite mammal- our cat Gizmo!



3 comments:

Lisa said...

Awesome!
-Ana :)

Shirley Ann said...

I love how you have included human mammals! It is not something that even crossed my mind, but of course you are quite right! ;o)

dstb said...

Some funny mammal signs. The pretend city reminds me of the book Roxaboxen which my teens still remember as a favorite.

The groundhog hole is much bigger than I was expecting.

I think it is interesting how many different kinds of signs there are - homes, footprints, remains of food, etc.

Thanks for sharing.
Sarah