NEWTs: in the meadow

Our NEWT (Naturalist-Eco-Wild-Team) program is a naturalist group that learns about the plants and animals in our local environment. Each week, we'll explore different areas of Huron Natural Area to see what we can see.

Week 1 of our NEWTs naturalist program had us looking in the meadow. 

Supper time for this black and yellow garden spider!

After this, we made our way down to the pond for a quick peek.

We started our nature journals, where we'll keep track of things that we see and hear. This is a list of some of the we saw:

• grasshopper
• bumblebee
• blue dragonfly
• leopard frog
• red dragonfly
• shield bug
• praying mantis
• ladybug
• monarch butterfly
• wooly bear caterpillar
• coltsfoot
• goldenrod
• Queen Anne's lace
• sumac
• red pine
• sugar maple
• herb Robert
• thimbleberry
• jewelweed
• algae
• cattail
• painted turtle
• frog
• black and yellow garden spider
• wild grapes
• white pine
• milkweed
• snail
• New England aster

It's amazing what you can see in just an hour and a half. What a great group of observant NEWTs we have!