Nature Camp 2008 has come to a close but by all reports it was a fun time.  As in past years, we held it at Banshee Reeks and this year had 13 kids join in the adventures.  Phil and Ellie Daley led the charge with help from Paul Miller and our two interns, Kate Gentry and Joey Villiari.

Each morning of the camp, the kids went on a nature hike through the fields and forests of Banshee and into Goose Creek. They found lots of toads and three species of salamanders and learned some of the bird calls. They checked out the beaver dam and got hands on with water quality monitoring in Goose Creek, checking the pH and dissolved oxygen, and classifying stream critters according to how sensitive they are to water quality.

The kids kept daily nature journals and were asked 20 questions each day to help spur ideas for their journals.  They also made nature id albums, which turned out like mini-field guides to the animals and plants that they saw and learned about each day of camp.

On the last day of camp, families joined in to help make and enjoy hand-cranked ice cream and participate in pill bug races (which you have to see to believe).  Winner of the races was the pill bug of Niko Rabin.

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