We have re-started Nature club this term and have nearly 20 enthusiastic members! We meet every Monday at 17:10 and we are going to investigate which types of animals live in our school grounds and find out as much as we can about them.
The skies were heavy with rain as we set off ...
On our way we found a young frog out hunting for bugs in the long grass...
... and a rather slimy slug (now called 'Phyllis').
We were looking for 'nature highways', the tracks that animals follow to get quickly to cover if there is a predator about.
We found a couple of likely spots and set up a couple of camera traps.
Other than catching images of our children setting the cameras, we have made a list of animals that we think we might find:
- Deer - we have seen them before and there is a lot of deer poo about ... but which species might we find?
- Badgers - there is a lot of fresh poo about (with lots of seeds in it!) but we have not seen one in the day time.
- Foxes - "because they are everywhere!"
- Rabbits - there are a lot of rabbit pellets about the place and we have all seem them on the edges of the fields during games.
- Mice - We hope to see them 'because they are cute!'
We are leaving the traps up for a whole week and will report back our findings next week!
