Squam Lakes Natural Science Center Field Trip

Our second homeschool field trip of the year was scheduled for Squam Lakes Natural Science Center. This is located up in Holderness, NH. It was a beautiful drive up there! We thought that maybe the color of the leaves would be gone, but even though the peak was past, we still had a gorgeous disply of beauty! The weather had been forecasted to be very cold and possibly rainy...not nice for walking trails, eh? We saw a few snowflakes on the way, but thankfully the weather was all clear the whole time we were up there. It was cold, but we had dressed appropriately.

When we got there we split up into two groups: older homeschool kids and younger. The younger group went inside and got to see three different creatures: the red tailed hawk, the peregrine falcon and the beaver. How cool to see these up close! Each of these animals had been hurt in some way and was now being taken care of by the Center.

After being indoors for our "class" we met up with everyone else and ate lunch together. Our group was then able to go and walk around the trail in order to meet other animals that were now being taken care of. We got to see fisher cats, foxes, otters, mountain lions, bob cats, bears, deer, owls, bald eagles, other hawks and a turkey vulture. (There were others, I'm sure, but at present I cannot remember them.)

The Center has so many interactive things for the kids to discover. We didn't have all day for them to look at everything so we literally had to peel them either out or away from some of the displays in order to keep moving. In fact, I think Marshall and Shaylen enjoyed the interactive rooms more than the animals! This is definitely something we should do again!