(click on the picture above for link to the Fontenelle Nature Center)

Winter Fun at the Forest

 

Here are 'The Guys' in front of the Nature Center.  It was cold, and the girls were already on the bus.

We've just arrived, and we're looking for tracks and forest animals.

Stopping for a break on the trail.

We found turkey tracks.  Let's follow them...

We found 3 turkeys nesting in the trees.

Here are some tracks that led to a hollow log.  What could have made them?

A raccoon track?

What could be living under this fallen tree?

??

We hiked for about 20 minutes, and we could see the Zoo Dome and downtown Omaha.

We saw the Missouri River down below.

We played in the tree house.

We thought that these were rabbit tracks because they have small front feet and big back feet for jumping.

Our tour guide pointed out that these were mouse tracks.  She drew circles around them so we could see them.

Here's a bull snake in the Nature Center. 
It is Nebraska's largest type of snake.

During our classroom time, we learned that animals do one of three things to survive in winter.  Some animals sleep all winter.

It's called hibernating.  Snakes and groundhogs do this.

Some animals use their wings to fly south.

This is called migrating.  Monarch butterflies and some birds do this.

Some animals stay active in the winter.  Deer, fox, some birds, and squirrels do this.  These are the animal tracks that we found.

Mrs. Moneymaker got dressed up as a turtle.  Turtles hibernate during the winter.

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