A Look Back at the Past Year: Winter 2012-13
Over 25 classes visited the Tantramar Wetlands Centre to participate in our Wetlands in Winter program this year. Through fun, hands-on activities, both indoors and outdoors, students learned about the local wildlife and the importance of our biodiverse wetland – even in winter!
Students gained useful skills like how to snowshoe and identify animals tracks in the snow. The classes also had the chance to see muskrat houses up close, learn about mammal skulls and watch volunteers drill a hole in the ice to see what’s living in the marsh during our coldest months.
Students trying to guess which animals the tracks belong to.
Students identifying tracks and scat with the help of two Wetheads.
Snowshoeing on a sunny day.
Students excited to find bones in an owl pellet.
A Wethead helping students identify invertebrates.
Wethead helping two students and a teacher find macroinvertebrates.
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