Crow's Nest Camp 2024 - Week Two

July 17, 2024

By Natural Lands

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager.

Summer campers posing with binoculars with a nuthatch creeping down the trunk of a tree behind them.

Photo: Fiona Sanders

The 3rd and 4th graders were an energetic bunch at camp during a particularly hot week this summer (of which there have now been several). Above, a group goofs around and a nuthatch appears to be in on the joke.

Photo: Pete Smyrl

There was plenty of time spent in the cooling waters of French Creek trying out the allegedly therapeutic value of its mud.

Camp kids posing on a boulder at Crow's Nest Preserve.

Photo: Devon Funt

Above, kids explore the boulders at Warwick Woods, and below, discover a salamander.

A summer camper holding a salamander on the back of his hand

Photo: Molly Smyrl

A camp counselor being splashed with water.

Photo: Allie Cook

Above, Educator Molly Smyrl enjoys a soaking courtesy the campers. Below, a couple photos of the French Creek flotilla—rafts being tested to see if they’re seaworthy.

I’ll be sure to offer more detailed recognition at the end of camp, but as we approach the mid-point of the summer, I’d like to acknowledge how great a group of staff and volunteers we have making this happen.

Photo: Molly Smryl

Photo: Pete Smyrl

Crow’s Nest Camp 2024 – Week Two