Kids in the Woods

Yesterday the Delta County YMCA day camp Kids in the Woods headed out to the Refuge. This was their second year and we had a great time despite the rain. They spent the day biking, playing games, doing beaver art work, exploring the visitor center, taking hikes, and conducting a pond study.

Pond studies are always interesting and you never know what you are going to find. Together we found quite a few great aquatic invertebrates and a couple of vertebrates too, a central mudminnow and a green/mink frog (I need to work on my ID of the two species I never know unless it calls).

Two of the observations I am completely stumped over. The little reddish worm. I initially thought it was a tubiflex worm but I am not certain if I see some little appendages on the front of the body? The other is a green blob that we find every time we go out, people ask about it every time and I am stumped. Is in an algae? Or something else...

Posted on August 4, 2017 12:16 PM by rangersara