Crow’s Nest: Tracks and Scat

At this spring’s sessions of WebWalkers, WebWanderers, and WebWigglers we are looking at tracks and scat.

Perhaps because of the lack of rain there are plenty of mudflats where there used to be water, so the tracking has been good.

We have seen lots of signs of animals at the preserve. Sometimes the signs are there and you don’t even realize it. In a sandbox we have re-created and studied the “track of the week.” A high point of each session is the edible (chocolate) “scat of the week” that Molly Smryl has prepared for us. Here the kids are “sampling” the realistic-looking “raccoon poop”—don’t try this at home!

Posted by Daniel Barringer on April 20, 2012.