A dozen students from Eagle Hill School spent yesterday exploring the Coxhall Kitchen Garden and Deer Park Preserve as part of their year-long exploration of Thoreau’s writings. The group did a variety of things, including building a human-sized bird nest as a piece of installation art, collecting freshwater insects from Fish Brook with Lee McLaughlin, a fisheries biologist, looking at scat and an owl pellet along the trails, and observing nature as Thoreau might have done.
It was a beautiful day to be outdoors!