Outdoor Hour Challenges - Winter Series #9 - Mammals.jpg)
We spent time this week in our own backyard and a couple local parks. Each time we were headed out I reminded the kids to be on the look out for signs of mammals, and Oh Boy! there is a lot of animal scat out there - dogs, cats, horses, and deer, deer, and more deer.
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The tracks are all from our backyard-
Anonymous large dog-
Our dog's track, he's a dachshund
We found a cat track too
Lots of deer tracks-
deer droppings-
And at a park we saw signs that deer had either been eating the tree bark or rubbing horns against it. .jpg)
We also reviewed the pictures of animal tracks in the book, Discover Nature in Winter (pg. 182-183), and the kids picked some to draw in their journals. 
We worked on our mammal study this week too! I love the tree where the elk scratched the bark. My dad has a tree that a bear is scratching the bark!!! Can you believe that? I keep forgetting to take a photo but I will this week sometime.
ReplyDeleteI love it when I can identify the tracks we see...deer are an easy one to spot, especially if you have scat near-by.
Thanks for sharing your mammal study.
Could you submit this entry too? Thanks so much for your support.
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Since we started working through TOH challenges, my kids have become quite the scat scouts- I've been amazed at how much they've found on our property when I thought that we had really very few mammals!
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