At the end of September when the leaves start to change to their fall colors it reminds me that the snow will soon be here, I actually would like it here by the 1^st of September so I could go ski but that would cut into our butterfly trips.

Sometimes we go into October on butterfly trips so I’m torn between the two my Dad says I can’t have both. By the time February gets here I ask my dad to look up when the field trips start, March is the first trip, last week it looks like he says. One year it was so cold we did not start till the month of May. My dad tells me that year I was so upset missing all those trips I think that’s when I found out my two favorite outdoor activities are butterfly trips and ski trips.

As I said before it’s not all about the butterflies it’s about the birds the cicadas the snakes the lizards the frogs and some stuff I don’t even know about! Then there was the time we went to schnebily canyon, we saw about ten rattle snakes my friend Sarah was scared she adjusted about half way down. We also took some pictures of the snakes!

David Nunelle was our field trip leader. He told us about a petrified tree that was high up in the canyon we could see that someone had dragged it down when we saw it wasn’t there, we also found small chunks of the tree on the way down. I also found a small dried up coyote body that had died over the winter and was almost freeze dried! It was in good shape Al Wagar said he would like to take it back to Seattle I asked why he told me that he had a friend at the Burk museum that takes in dead animals and samples their DNA and they can check how they died and what they eat in that habitat. Jo nunelle gave us a trash bag to put it in. Also it didn’t smell one bit! Sarah and I caught some butterflies up on the top of the ridge. Sarah also caught her first Saras orange tip! We both caught a Varity of marbles and whites. I also showed how to put the butterflies on her nose. All in All it was a good season, I can’t wait to get into the field its so fun going out to do something once every couple weeks and I love spending time here and I love being part of WBA.

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