My House in Los Angeles

When I lived in California I had 2 canyons, 1 in my front yard and 1 in my back yard. We also had a hummingbird nest next to our window. The hummingbird laid two eggs. One of the eggs fell from the nest and broke on the ground.

Me and my mom once went on a hike in the back canyon. We found a big alligator lizard and I caught it. It was about a foot long. Then we walked over a bridge and we saw a lizard on it and I caught that too. We went up a little bit more and I found a turtle on the ground. We raced back down to my house with the turtle in my hands and looked on the computer to see if there was a pond nearby. The audobon society near our house had a pond and we brought the turtle there. There weren't any turtles at the pond except the one I brought. A month later I came back and there were about 10 turtles at the pond and it might have been because the turtle I brought had laid eggs.

Turtle Hunting

yestrday i went to sugr pond with my frand oiavr. win i got thar i cote 7 tadpols and 1 frog. i went arond the pond and i found a turtle. it was in the middl of the pond. i threw pabls behid it to skar it ner me. It didn't work so I threw pebbles closer to me and he came closer. Maybe he thought it was food. When he was swimming towards me with his head underwater, I put my feet in the pond and scooped him up with my net. The pond water was up to my kneecaps and the bottom of the pond felt a lot colder than the top. It was squishy at the bottom. I think the turtle was a yellow eared slider because it had a yellow stripe near its ears. The shell was black on the top and yellow on the bottom.

A Hike at Bear Mountain

Yesterday I went with my family to Bear Mountain. When we started the hike I found a grey garter snake. It went into the bushes before I could look at it so we kept going. After a while we came to a wooded area and right on the trail was a 6-foot black rat snake stretched out! The snake was resting on the path and it looked like it was warming itself in the sun. I touched it's tail and it picked its head up and looked at me and began to coil. But instead it slithered into a hollow tree. A black rat snake is black on the top and almost white on the bottom. As you can tell by it's name, it likes to eat rats and mice and other rodents.

Frogging at Sugar Pond

A few days ago I went to Sugar Pond with my dad. When I got there I found two frogs two frogs next to a big rock under a tree. I tried to catch one, but it jumped away too quickly, but my dad caught one on his first try. I went around the pond once and on my way around I found a turtle but it was in the middle so I could catch that. I looked around the pond and I found another frog which I caught. I came around the pond and it jumped out of my net. I was feeling like I wasn't going to catch one but on my next try, I caught one and put it in my bucket with the one my dad caught. I opened the net and it jumped out of the bucket and back into the pond. At the end of the day, I ended up with one frog, one fish and a few tadpoles.