Winter Scavenger Hunt

Find a pine cone. Can you identify what kind of pine tree it came from?__________________________________________.

Find tracks in the snow and identify them. What kind are they?______________________________________.

Find a hole dug in the snow by an animal looking for food.

Look for a twig that's been browsed off by a deer.

Find a tree with a buck-rub.

Locate an animal path worn in the snow in the woods.

Find two different types of bird nests. Try to identify them. (Do not remove them though, it's illegal to take them from the wild.) 1._______________________ 2.________________________

Find brown leaves still hanging from an oak tree.

Watch an icicle form.

Follow rabbit tracks. Where do they live in the winter?

Find a tunnel in the snow made by a mole, mouse, or vole.

Find air bubbles trapped in the ice on a frozen lake or river.
(Be sure to check ice conditions before going out on any frozen lake or river.)

Find a fish under the ice.

Find a frozen waterfall (very small or large).

Stargaze and find Orion, a common winter constellation.

Spy a moonshadow on the snow on a full moon night.

Look for the Northern Lights on a clear winter night.

Look for snow fleas on the snow at the base of trees.

Watch a chickadee.

If you live in Northern Wisconsin, look for a snowshoe hare, if you live in southern Wisconsin, look for a cottontail rabbit.

Locate deer tracks.

Find a gall on goldenrod. (Look on the stem for this round bulb created by wasps, flies, beetles or moths.)

Listen for the booming sound of a frozen lake cracking. Or listen for a frozen tree cracking.

Find a squirrel's nest made of leaves.

Find a cocoon on a twig, tree, fence post, or on leaves under a tree.