On Thursday June 3rd, my wildlife ecology and management class took us birding in the morning and later in the day we took a trip to The National Wild Turkey Federation’s Wild Turkey Center & Winchester Museum in Edgefield, South Carolina. Within the first hour of bird watching we saw 7 different birds and learned about the different bird calling sounds. Some of the birds we saw included mourning doves, house finches, northern mockingbird, brown thrasher, eastern kingbird, eastern bluebird and orchard oriole. I love bird watching and I had a great time with the class. We learned a lot about the wild turkeys from two of the tour guides that day as we adventured inside with their interactive activities and went outside for a hiked tour. I had no idea that turkeys population were decreasing due to land loss, hunting and human impacts on the environment but with the help of hunters and environmental organizations the wild turkey’s populations are able to thrive to this day. This organization is incredible and I’m glad that we got to spend the day learning about these birds. We ended our wonderful day at Pizza Hut for lunch and stopped at a local fresh fruit stand. What an incredible experience!
On Friday June 4th, I attended the second soil class and took my first quiz. I did well on the quiz and started learning how to classify my state soil. Our teacher assigned everyone a state to study the soil and towards the end of the month we will present a PowerPoint presentation. My state soil is Bayamón in Puerto Rico. I learned how to classify the types of rocks and minerals while gathering valuable information to prepare for my presentation. I still feel a little overwhelmed but plan on working really hard in this class to obtain as much as possible from this class.
Yours truly,
Brittany
cute picture, now we have to go turkey hunting for thanksgiving since you know all about them.
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