When we said goodbye in December, our land was covered in snow, now its covered in ice! Before we began our day we came up with some creative ways to safely navigate our slippery adventure. 
We walked like bobcats on all fours and penguins waddling along to keep ourselves safe.
And then we were off to the yellow trail! We had two special missions in mind. The first was to find and learn about nests. We know the some are low and some are high. Some are big and some are small. Some are only used once and some are used again and again. We saw many of these types of nests on our adventure, although the highest ones are hard to spot!
We also wanted to map out the yellow trail from start to finish and mark where we saw interesting things like birds nests, scat, or tracks.
First some rabbit tracks! These are our favorite to find, because after everyone starts doing their own bunny hop!
We navigated over some logs and came to a natural ice rink! It was so fun to slide around on and crack with our boots.
We were so surprised to see the changes that big winds had brought to the yellow trail since the last visit. We walked by what we thought was the porcupine's aka David Bowie old house, but it was now totally blocked by a down tree! And to even more surprise he was home!! He was very cozy in a pile of his own scat and quills and we each took turns quietly climbing closer for a peek...so cool!
Bobcats!
"Bottom-boggening"
Another nest way up high!
Katie spotted this nest that might of belonged to a robin. It was made partly of mud and had little pieces of tarp and maybe horse hair woven throughout.
In the afternoon we went out to the big hill and saw some leftover tracks that looked bigger because of the ice. They went around the whole perimeter of the big field, hugging the forest. Because it walked so straight (to save energy) and we could see its nails, we guessed they belong to a coyote.
I hear the wolf and the fox and the weasel!
Ow, ow, ow!!!
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