Biodiversible Teens

Today inour group we went over to forest park. First we did this project that we were planing to do for the summer. In this project we measured out a space in paces for our search and find. In between this space we identified two oak trees and a thistle. We also saw like seventeen other flowers.Some of them that we saw are called potentilla, henbit, shepards purse, the honey suckle, and a lot more. The most flowers that I saw were the violets, spring beauty, dandilion, and the potentilla. Some of the trees that we saw were the oak,red bud, witch hazel, dog wood, maple,crab apple,hawthorne, and wesaw pine trees. Out of all of the trees that I saw my favorite trees were the red bud,dogwood,crabapple, and witch hazel. Other thanplants and flowers we also saw a variety of birds. We saw a cardinal, a redwing- blackbird, a robin,a mallard duck, and a grackle.

Today Jasmine, Vincent and I went to Forest Park and counted the number of types of plants that were growing in an area of lawn 16 paces square with two oak trees near the fishing pond at the Eastern edge of the park.  Jamine and Vincent counted 18 species of plants including the oak trees. There was also a swarm of knats until a wind blew them away and two mallard males, a redwing blackbird, a grackle, and a cardinal flew by. I also think I saw a female goldfinch and there were many robins. Vincent noted that we saw the highest number of bird species this time, of any park visit.

When we were walking along the edge of a smaller pond an animal made a funny sweak/squack and jumped in the water.  We couldn't figure out what it was.  It looked rusty red out of the corner of my eye.  Could it have been a frog sunning itself?  It sounded almost like a bird, but it didn't surface.  Any ideas???

Leah

Hi All,