We went back to the Elkton Butterfly Pavillion today. Check out the Echinacea that is behind me. Doug, Riley, Vanessa, and Rosie went with us today. Riley has been here before, but it was all new & exciting for the rest of the kids.
Check out this beautiful Monarch! We had them walking on us there was so many! It was a lot of fun.
Here are a bunch of them feeding on flowers and orange halves. They love the sweet juice of the oranges.
They also drink the nectar of the flowers.
Here are some pupae that are getting ready to split & some monarchs that are recently "hatched" and drying out. Soon they will be fluttering around the little building also.
In the research room we find Monarch caterpillars that are being fed milkweek, when they become pupae they are closely monitored & when they are close to ready to emerge they are moved to the pavillion.
This time we walked down to the Umpqua River at the bottom of the hill. It was really pretty down at the river, but all Doug wanted to know was what fish he could catch there.
And here is the replica of Fort Umpqua that they are building. They just got the left side of the gate hung today! There are essentailly three men who are building this fort, but they were able to hire two young men to help them with some of the work this summer. All materials, except the concrete underneath, are donated & there is no government money going into this project at all...it's all donations & volunteers. They are three years into this project and have the walls up & the two battlements done. When it is completely finished there will be three buildings inside and a cooking area. The men who are doing the work also know a lot of the history of the fort & are happy to share it!
We also stopped back at the Dean's Creek Elk Viewing area. Of course the elk were East of where the viewing buildings are...but we did see Canadian Geese! These are Michelle's favorites, so she was very excited.
You can just see me leaning up against the elk part of this sign. We had a lot of fun today & we even learned something!
We went back to the Elkton Butterfly Pavillion today. Check out the Echinacea that is behind me. Doug, Riley, Vanessa, and Rosie went with us today. Riley has been here before, but it was all new & exciting for the rest of the kids.
Check out this beautiful Monarch! We had them walking on us there was so many! It was a lot of fun.
Here are a bunch of them feeding on flowers and orange halves. They love the sweet juice of the oranges.
They also drink the nectar of the flowers.
Here are some pupae that are getting ready to split & some monarchs that are recently "hatched" and drying out. Soon they will be fluttering around the little building also.
In the research room we find Monarch caterpillars that are being fed milkweek, when they become pupae they are closely monitored & when they are close to ready to emerge they are moved to the pavillion.
This time we walked down to the Umpqua River at the bottom of the hill. It was really pretty down at the river, but all Doug wanted to know was what fish he could catch there.
And here is the replica of Fort Umpqua that they are building. They just got the left side of the gate hung today! There are essentailly three men who are building this fort, but they were able to hire two young men to help them with some of the work this summer. All materials, except the concrete underneath, are donated & there is no government money going into this project at all...it's all donations & volunteers. They are three years into this project and have the walls up & the two battlements done. When it is completely finished there will be three buildings inside and a cooking area. The men who are doing the work also know a lot of the history of the fort & are happy to share it!
We also stopped back at the Dean's Creek Elk Viewing area. Of course the elk were East of where the viewing buildings are...but we did see Canadian Geese! These are Michelle's favorites, so she was very excited.
You can just see me leaning up against the elk part of this sign. We had a lot of fun today & we even learned something!
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