Our welcome center addition isn’t exactly a parlor, but it’s starting to take shape. This view of the entrance shows where the double entry doors will be. A wide porch over the entry will be added in a few weeks. A new visitor desk will be located where the ladder is propped on the far wall.
The view out from inside the welcome center shows where visitors will enter the building from the main trail.
The construction site superintendent called to say there was a bird in the nature center. With the help of a sweep net, we were able to capture the immature Carolina Wren. Since bird banding was on the schedule for our campers in kindergarten and first grade, we gave the bird a permanent aluminum marker before releasing it. A parent wren called it in as it flew off.
The camouflaged crab spider waits in ambush, welcoming unsuspecting insects who visit the Queen Anne’s Lace flower.
A story about this flower tells its origin. Queen Anne was making lace and pricked a finger with her needle. A drop of blood fell into the center of the lace. Look carefully to see one tiny blood red spot in the middle of each flower. A European native, these flowers are naturalized in fields and along sunny edges in New England.
