Look What We've Discovered...
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| Newly hatched painted
turtle found in meadow making its way towards the water. |
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| Garden Spider commonly
found in the meadow. |
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| Days old baby squirrel
in nest. |
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| Juvenile Blue Crab |
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| Luna Moths recently
emerged from cocoons. |
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| Bullfrog basking in
sun in the wetlands. |
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| Northern Water Snakes
basking in the sun at the wetlands. |
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| Male Green Frog caught
at the wetlands of Miami Beach. |
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| Praying Mantis feeding
on it's prey, a Short-Horned Grasshopper on a Sweet Gum leaf. |
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| Jellyfish found off
the shore of Miami Beach. |
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| Baby painted turtle
(approximately 3 – 6 weeks) found in meadow of Marshy Point
by one of the Eco-Trekker students |
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| Canada Goose and goslings
at Miami Beach |
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| Baby opossum found
at Marshy Point near forest |
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| Red-winged blackbird
resting in wetlands at Miami Beach |
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| Black snake in forest
at Marshy Point |
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| Water snake warming
itself from Sun at wetlands at Miami Beach |
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| Great Blue Heron wading
in water while searching for prey at Dundee Creek. |
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| Canada Geese off of
Miami Beach shoreline. |
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| Migrating Sandpiper
stopping for food at Miami Beach shoreline. |
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| Cattail seeds about
to be dispersed by non-living factor, wind. |
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| Elver (Juvenile Eel)
just finished its long migration from the Sargasso Sea near
Bermuda to the Gunpowder River. |
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| Juvenile Snapping Turtle
heading towards the relative safety of Miami Beach shoreline
waters. |
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| Green Frog basking
in the sun at the Miami Beach wetlands. |
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| Great Blue Heron searching
for prey off Miami Beach. |
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| Juvenile Rockfish caught
while seining at Miami Beach shoreline. |
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| Grass shrimp found
at shoreline ecosystem at Miami Beach. |
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| Teacher Naturalist
showing students gills of a Yellow Perch. |
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| Male Mallard Duck eating
SAVs washed up at shoreline ecosystem. |