My daughter and I went for a bike ride because she was supposed to go out and find evidence of animal life in different locations. We recently discovered a trail along power lines near us. That seemed like a good spot to go to fulfill a school assignment.
We looked along the trail and found some tiny butterflies, a couple of cigarette butts, some scat from an unidentified animal, and the buzzing sound of some insect.
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| On the trail |
Maybe twenty yards off the trail, a local street crosses a bridge. Underneath is a stream that feeds into Hammond Branch. It was a different environment from the path and had different evidence of animal life.
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| Graffiti is a sign of someone there |
The little shore had all sorts of evidence. Deer must come here to drink, leaving their hoof prints behind. We saw paw prints from other animals too. And the regrettable detritus of some human.
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| Can you spot the evidence? |
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| A variety of paw prints |
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| Someone celebrated Cinco de Mayo early |
The stream winds its way through a neighborhood into a larger stream. We did not go downstream.
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| A river runs out of it |
We went back to the trail in search of the Hammond Branch ford that my daughter had discovered on a previous trip.
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| Biking to a new area |
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| The Hammond Branch, upstream from where we were previously |
The water had an impressive current (we'd had a rainstorm the night before) and the waters made a pleasant sound as they rolled over a patch of rocks to the right of the ford.
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| A nice bit of the stream |
At the ford, we found the best evidence of animal life...actual animal life!
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| Taking a picture |
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| Close up of the tiny fish |
We had a fun adventure and she got to complete some science assignments for her distance learning. It was a win all around!
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