Meander River field trip photos

: 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).