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YNC Halifax leader Karen McKendry (a.k.a Squirrely) describes some of the vegetation found in floodplain forests (photo by Margo Bulpitt).
Bloodroot leaf (photo by Krista Garnier).
Nodding Trillium (photo by Margo Bulpitt).
An American Robin eggshell (photo by Shelly Morash).
Frances (yellow jacket) describes the biology of lichens, while Karen listens, mesmorized (photo by Shelly Morash).
Young naturalist at work (photo by Shelly Morash).
Looking a lichen up close with a hand lens (photo by Shelly Morash).
Wowee! Look at those apothecia (the reproductive parts of the lichen, which on this species are the big, brown discs)(photo by Margo Bulpitt).
Examining mosses using hand lenses (photo by Krista Garnier).
Beware the slug! They graze on lichens (photo by Margo Bulpitt).
This branch had fallen off a tree, giving us a chance to see up close a lichen that normally grows high off the ground (photo by Krista Garnier).
Listening and learning on Meander River (photo by Shelly Morash).
We saw many species of ferns bursting through the leaf cover in their typical fiddlehead shape (photo by Shelly Morash).
Oak fern (photo by Margo Bulpitt).
Christmas fern (photo by Margo Bulpitt).
Ostrich fern (photo by Margo Bulpitt).
Sensitive fern (photo by Margo Bulpitt).
The group gathered and walked quietly for a while to try to pick out different bird songs (photo by Krista Garnier).
Ready for the field! (photo by Cara Kirkpatrick).
