Here’s the Headwaters Nature Bingo page of clues for the next several weeks!
- We’re now encouraging you to include up to three of your personal observations that go beyond the list of 22 other observations!
- Make this your own challenge — and include observations that mean a lot to you!
- (I am personally going to include the Merlins that I saw earlier this week in downtown Orangeville. They were exciting to see!)
- Send your observations to the Webmaster for prizes of ‘inestimable value’!
Here’s a printable blank bingo card (including instructions) for you to use if you wish.
We’re also including a printed version of the current clues:
- Wild Leeks / Ramps (poking above the ground; bonus point for sustainably digging and eating one leek!
- Woolly Bear caterpillar (bonus point: what is the name of the moth, and what colour is it?)
- Baby bird of any species and name the species
- Bird breeding song – describe the song
- First Spring Peeper (and where?)
- Bluebird
- First Chorus Frog (and where?)
- Turtle basking (bonus: one that has safely crossed a road; double bonus: if helped carefully by you!)
- Snapping turtle
- First butterfly: what kind?
- First dragonfly or damselfly: (bonus: what kind)
- First Bumblebee: (bonus: what kind)
- First other insect (not butterfly or dragonfly or bumblebee; bonus: what kind)
- Baby mammal: (bonus: what kind)
- Osprey (and where?(
- First snake: (bonus: what kind)
- Silver maple flowers: shedding or receiving pollen
- First Red Trillium flower (and where?)
- Turkey vulture (and where?)
- Spring Beauty flower (and where?)
- Morel mushroom (bonus: samples given to another member!)
- Skunk cabbage flower – where
- Your favourite observation of the period!
- Another observation that excited you!
- A third observation that appealed to you!