Lake Mitchell Audubon Center

Today the girls and I went on a field trip with the scouts group to the Lake Mitchell Audubon Center here in San Antonio. Kora and Aubrey are working on their Zoology badges and Nature and Wildlife Badges, so this was a great opportunity for them to complete many of the requirements for them. I hadn't even known this place existed before we started making plans for this field trip.
It is nicely landscaped around the headquarters building, so they were able observe native plants in many varieties.

There were also many insects, including roly-polies, which just fascinated Hailey and Brynna.

The coolest had to be the monarch caterpillar. And yes I actually took this picture - isn't it cool?

They did get to go out on the trails and see some birds, although the fog, drizzle and construction crew (the center is having an amphitheater built on the side of the building) kept some of it away, I think. Maybe the 70 or so people, most of them on the short side, had something to do with that as well. :)