Winter creatures

I must say that the past few weeks/months have been really difficult to get any nature study in. We have all been missing our weekly walks in the woods and this weekend was finally warm enough to go! I am amazed at how many things we saw...

Three deer! A young one:

And then we saw the Mommy deer:

And here are all three:

Canadian goose that was honking loudly:

I didn't get a picture of the mallard ducks but here is the muskrat we saw!

Julia really wanted to go swimming, or bathing or something (much to Louisa's concern)!

It's hard to tell but we were on a pretty steep river bank, and she just wanted to jump right over.

We are glad to have had a chance to enjoy the great weather and see so many winter creatures!