Heritage Trail, 28 May 2008

We wanted to scout out the situation at the Heritage Trail in Goshen. We usually follow the trail alongside the 6 1/2 Station Road Sanctuary to look for Snapping Turtles and birds, but due to construction on the Route 17 overpass that section of the trail is closed. We decided to go the other way on the trail today.

Where the wildflowers have not been mowed down we have seen hundreds of dragonflies and damselflies, and we've also seen Snapping turtles nesting in the gravelly dirt on the sides of the trail. Today we had no luck with turtles, but the wildflowers were still there. Tracy laughed as she rubbed the fuzz of a mullein leaf that resembles Rabbit's Ear (commenting how it feels just like Chase's new buzzcut), and the kids certainly had fun trying to catch all of the insects we saw!