Today's visit by Ridge Audubon was a great success. I ended up leading two field trips because one family showed up at the wrong place and one person was late. It was great. The first group saw lots of flowers, but the second trip saw a praying mantis on Britton's bear grass and a live Sand Skink under one of the monitoring boards. Bonamia and three species of Ascelpias (see earlier post) were blooming. So was Yellow Colic Root, which was lovely. I'll post photos later. I think seeing live critters, especially relatively seldom seen species, such as the Praying Mantis at right created some interest from the kids.
