Just because there’s snow on the ground doesn’t mean there isn’t still life in the woods.
Kingsbury School’s 125-acre pristine rural campus in Addison Township played host Saturday to a program in which third, fourth and fifth graders learned how to identify signs of wildlife during the winter season from the school’s naturalist and environmental studies teacher Anne Sousanis.
“Today, we’re going to look at wildlife in winter,” Sousanis said. “(Students will) be looking at all the evidence of wildlife you can find, even on a day like today when everything has either gone south or is in hiding.”
That evidence included mammal tracks, birds’ and insects’ nests, skulls, antlers, feathers, etc.
Students saw some live evidence of wildlife in the winter when two deer wandered near the classroom window.
The students later went outside to examine and follow the fresh tracks.