1. Leaf- Why do you think it is called a Tulip Poplar
My Nature Journal
Tulip Poplar
Leaf- Why do you think it is called a Tulip Poplar

2. Naturalists Saunter - move slowly and deliberately.
Observe – use their senses
Look
Listen
Smell
Touch
On occasion taste – but only under supervision of an experienced naturalist.
Record their observations in their journal

3. What should I record… the date the location the time of day
weather conditions
vegetation characteristics
human impacts and disturbance.

4. Bush Honeysuckle in spring

5. Bush Honeysuckle in late summer

6. Wild Black Cherry

7. Privetin Spring

8. Privet berries in late summer

9. Privet Stem

10. Wild Grapes

11. Red Mulberry Leaves

12. Poison Ivy
Leaves of three? Leave it be!

13. Passion Flower & Can you find the Rose?

14. Rose Vines Can you see the thorns?

15. Pokeweed

16. Pokeweed berries. Pokeweed is very poisonious for humans.

17. Hackberry Leaves

18. Hackberry limbs

19. Bark on the same Hackberry Tree

20. Can you find the Beetle on the Frostweed
Can you find the Beetle on the Frostweed. Its name comes from the unusual thing it does in winter. Come back and check it out when it gets cold!

21. Leather-wing beetle

22. Frost Flower in Winter

23. Mistflower

24. Our own Ground Hogs!

25. Broadheaded Skink We found this friend on the playground Trying
To hide!
Broadheaded Skink

26. Blue Skink in our Garden

27. Birds
Red Bellied Woodpecker Downey Woodpecker

28. Cardinals- which is male? How did you know?

29. Carolina Wren House Wren

30. What am I?

31. Brown-eyed Susan

32. Where am I

33. Pin Oak Tree

34. Shingle Oak Tree

35. Shingle Oak Leaves

36. Shingle Oak Acorns
What else do you see in
this picture ?

37. Can you find the Lichens?

38. Lichens magnified….

39. Moss

40. This Cedar Tree is a female tree because it has fruit.

41. The berries are the fruit of the cedar tree