Well, today was the day! Nature study, going out and observing God's creation in 89% humidity, oh me! Sister decided she wanted to study Daddy's new Pin Oak he planted this year. Earlier this summer something ate most of its leaves, that would have been a good study! We think it was some sort of beetle. In any case, getting back on topic, we took pictures, collected a leaf and observed the bark. Sister spotted a firefly and we took note of the sounds around us.
Actually, Sister took the pictures. You can see her finger there in the pic. I took a better one fingerless one but thought since this was about her nature journal and not mine I should actually use her photos.
We did a quick internet search on fireflies and found out they are actually a member of the beetle family.
At first Sister couldn't hear anything around her. Then finally she heard what she called crickets. After we did a little research, we decided what we actually heard were Katydids.You can click here to start or stop the sound we heard today.
