Duck Facts

Today at camp we learned about ducks. Each camper had to pick a duck from the poster and then colour their duck picture to match their duck. Then everyone had to guess everyone else's duck. We learned some interesting facts about ducks.

• Ducks have 3 eye lids.
• Ducks are omnivorous which means they will eat both plants and insects.
• Ducks are found on every continent except for Antarctica.
• Duck calls include grunts, groans, brays, growls, chips and whistles. Not many ducks actually quack.
• Ducks can fly over 300 miles per day.
• There are many different types of ducks including dabbling ducks, diving ducks, perching ducks and stifftail ducks.

Esterhazy Summer Camp August 8-12, 2011

Bird Sightings

Can you spot the Red-winged Blackbird? Or the Cedar Waxwing? How about a Ruddy Duck? Which one is the Blue-winged Teal?

Churchbridge Summer Camp August 2-5, 2011

The World of Bugs

We made some colorful bugs at camp. Did you know these neat bug facts?

• Mosquitoes have 47 teeth, however, they don't use them to bite.
• Dragonflies can fly over 60 miles per hour making them one of the fastest bugs!
• Houseflies jump backwards when they take off to fly.
• There are 900,000 different kinds of insects in the world.

Visit http://www.rusticgirls.com/animals/bug-facts.html for more bug facts.

The Leflay Birding Trail

The Leflay Birding Trail offers a great location to watch birds and wildlife. There are over 2 km of trails in the forest. This week at summer camp the students helped to paint new signs and then walk the trail and hang up the way finding signs in the forest. Bird watchers can follow the white trail, the orange trail or the blue trail. Visit our website to see more details on the trail: http://www.yfbta.com/leflay__birding__trail.htm

Saltcoats Summer Camp

We Love Turtles!

Summer Fun

The YFBTA Summer Camps have started this week. Here is a group of Saltcoats campers out having some fun on the Leflay Birding Trail.

Summer Camps

Join YFBTA this summer to learn about nature, birds and wildlife. Summer Day Camps will be held in Saltcoats, Churchbridge and Esterhazy in July and August. Grade 4 and older will have nature programs from 9:30am to 1:00pm and Grade 1, 2 and 3 will have nature programs from 1:30pm to 4:00pm. Grade levels are based on student's grade levels for September 2011. Email yellowheadflywaybirding@gmail.com for a registration form.