Barkcamp Outing
Yesterday we traveled to Barkcamp State Park, just past St. Clairsville, Ohio. The lake was formed from the damming of a creek (1963). I observed two different species of hawk and a great blue heron. One of the hawks, the one with the longest wings, swooped down and snatched something from the water. It was a beautiful clear day and the water was stirred from time to time by a refreshing breeze. The children enjoyed diving down to the sand and finding some snails. One species had a large spiral shell several inches in length, and another species resembled a tiny, one-half inch clam. Although this encounter with nature was planned, the encounter with the snails happened serendipitously, due to the presence of other children, and provided another opportunity to interact with nature from the child’s point of view.
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A fish eating raptor may have been an osprey or an eagle.