Eagle and owl cams

There is a neat webcam of an eagle nest at http://www.berry.edu/eaglecam/.  There is one eaglet, mom, dad, and one egg.  A Berry College eagle expert has determined the egg is not viable.  There is a link to a video where the dad buries the egg in the nest and the mom unburies it.

There is also an owl cam at http://www.ustream.tv/okcowlcam.  The owl cam is setup on the window sill of a homeschooler.

ENWYC 11/21/13

Today we made leaf rubbings from a variety of different leaves.

 

 

 

We also had a visitor.

Show and Tell 10/24/13

We were missing our illustrious leader.  Yet, we still enjoyed our show and tell.

Show and Tell 09/26/13

• Tarantulas
• highlight of the night
• able to hold the tarantula
• pre-digest their prey by injecting venom
• has an exoskeleton
• discarding of exoskeleton = molting
• two types
• Brazilian black tarantula

• Bolivian tarantula
• juvenile 

• Froghopper
• a froth hides nymphs from view of predators
• Spittle bug larvae
• spittle bugs can jump 100 times there length
• Feathers
• Coopers hawk feather
• woodland hawk
• mostly eats birds
• Woodpecker feathers

Coopers hawk feather and woodpecker feathers

 

Unknown feathers

• Brown snake
• Rosie Boa

• snake skin is much longer than the snake

• snakes shed their skin to grow bigger, rid themselves of parasites, and make repairs
• lens over eye gets scratched up so the new skin means a fresh lens

• Duckweed
• lives in water
• underside is dark pink
• has leaves and roots but no stem
• tiny flower

• Bladder wort
• black spots = bladder
• carnivorous

Show and Tell 09/12/13

• Pawpaw fruit

 

 

• Black rat snake
• today is the snake's last visit
• the snake will be released back on Jekyll Island
• females have a shorter tail section than the males
• swallow food whole
• jaw comes apart; unhinges
• has notches under chin 
• expansion joints where the jaw can spread
• stretch ligaments to larger than himself
• non-venomous snakes
• double scales on tail underside
• one large scale before cloacal opening
• gets to be 7 feet long
• about 3 years old
• grows a foot a year

• 5 lined skink
• have ears
• snakes do not
• eats grasshoppers and crickets
• will not eat bees 

• Feathers
• crow, cardinal, crow

• 3 flicker

• Brown snake

• Chinese mantid

• 2 male cicadas

• 2 frogs

Show and Tell 08/01/13

• Flower fly

• Fern
• part of fern
• spore capsules
• ferns reproduce using spores

• House centipede

• Feathers

 

2 mockingbird feathers, flicker yellow shafted woodpecker feather, and pigeon feather

• Galls
• cynipid wasp
• gall forming wasp

• Leeches
• all leeches lay eggs

• Opossum
• more teeth than any other mammal
• around 50 teeth

• Ornamental succulent

• Chestnut burrs

• Magnolia seed pods
• bright red seeds attract birds
• Birds eat the seeds, goes through the digestive system.  The seeds are now fertilized and ready to plant.