The Meadow and the Millpond: Tales for Children

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I think the best part was having about 5 people who really knew a great deal about different facets of the wildlife we caught. It is one of the few forms of life that migrate from fresh water to the ocean to spawn in a process described as catadromous. You really must learn more about this cool creature so we added a U.

Fish and Wildlife Service information bulletin about the American eel as a subpage to this one. The total count for the morning was 15 painted turtles, 1 twenty to thirty year old snapper - we think it was Fluffy, a few sunfish, a catfish about 8 inches long, baby eels and an adult eel about 1.

Each of these was measured, sex identified when possible , and the turtles were notched.

Household Tales, by Brothers Grimm

Then they hitched a ride by automobile up to Loop Pond and released. It was a glorious day and a fascinating opportunity to be a part of this adventure! Photographs from today will be presented in order of discovery and you will see the cool animals we captured as the morning progressed. It really was suspenseful and exciting! Kestrel Education Adventures also assisting with the project and providing some educational info. Turtle shells are made of many fused bones. The smaller sections are hard scutes, also called shields, which protect the shell. Scutes are overlapping pieces of keratin - same substance as your fingernail.

The top shell is called Carapace which is made up of about 50 bones - the ribs and vertebrae. The Bridge fuses the top and bottom shells together.

The Tale of Master Meadow Mouse by Arthur Scott Bailey, XXIV. Master or Mister?

Eric Hutchins pulls the first American eel trap These little cuties in pink are here with their grand friends in pink checking out all the cool and unusual animals. Look at the Carapace and Plastron They have a small little strip of red at the bottom of the gill Bullhead catfish We caught a nice size Bullhead but some folks were unfamiliar with them.

Bullheads have flat broad heads, compact bodies, rounded fins and a squared-off tail. They range in length from 8 to 14 inches and typically weigh 1 to 2 pounds. Their fins contain saw-toothed spines that they use for defense and can cause an uncomfortable sting upon contact. The back is darker brown and the belly is yellow.

Bullheads are omnivorous and rely on their taste buds to locate food. They feed on insect larvae, aquatic insects, crayfish, snails, clams and seaweed. Bullheads spawn in late spring to early summer in mud or sand and lay their eggs in rounded depressions in the gravelly bottom. They can tolerate low-oxygen, high-carbon dioxide and prefer the acidic muddy bottom where they "breathe" through their skin. A little catching, measuring, viewing black whiskers, and into the aerated bucket until release.

The crowd assembled to open the Elver trap baby eel trap. The information is documented daily in order to better understand the American eel migratory patterns from the Sargasso Sea into fresh water. Six more pretty Painted turtles. They were pretty worried about her. And what's a mother not to love??? A little nose and chin whiskers. But be careful of her long neck, sharp claws, and finger loving bite. Bottom shell that doesn't cover well. Incredibly long and flexible neck.

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Pretty eyes and prehistoric tail. Observe the scales on her legs.

Check out the holes in the mouth Then gaze into her beautiful eyes. We heard she had a companion and we hope to save him too!!! Wednesday, September 13th, Setting Traps. Well, we don't happen to have any photographs of today but the work was similar to September 8th so check it out. We set eleven turtle traps and six eel traps.

Such gorgeous weather for our work at Mill Pond today. We spent the morning and early afternoon with a few local residents that were observing what we were up to, along with a class from Rockport High and Essex Tech. Rick and Eric pulled the turtle and eel traps and had a few really great discoveries.

Nixie in the mill pond

Kestrel set up three stations for Rockport High which included water quality testing, netting and statistics, and fish migration and grounds exploration. Essex Tech kids focused on capture by dip and seine nets and documenting those statistics. It was great seeing the Tech kids in waders The kids from both schools quickly became motivated and vested in the project once we were underway.

And now," he added, "I must go and tell everybody about this sudden change. So he hurried home. Crow and goodness only knew how many other dangerous folk. There was just one among all the company that was opposed to the change. He snorted and started to say something disagreeable. And for once everybody told Uncle Billy for it was he! To hear audio for this text, and to learn the vocabulary sign up for a free LingQ account. Master Meadow Mouse looked at him in a puzzled fashion for a moment or two.

They all approved his choice. And that was the end of Master Meadow Mouse. When she was finished she set it down at the water's edge. Before long there came a motion from beneath the water. A wave arose, rolled onto the bank, and carried the comb away with it. In not more time than it took for the comb to sink to the bottom, the surface of the water parted, and the huntsman's head emerged. He said nothing, only looking at his wife with sorrowful glances. That same instant a second wave rushed up and covered her husband's head.

The millpond lay as peaceful as before, with only the face of the full moon shining on it. The next morning she again set out and told her sorrows to the wise woman. The old woman gave her a golden flute, and said, "Wait until the full moon comes again, then take this flute. Sit on the bank and play a beautiful tune on it. When you are finished set it in the sand.

Then you will see what will happen. The woman did what the old woman had told her to do. No sooner was the flute lying in the sand than there was a motion from beneath the water, and a wave rushed up and carried the flute away with it. Immediately afterwards the water parted, and not only her husband's head, but half of his body emerged as well. He stretched out his arms longingly towards her, but a second wave rushed up, covered him, and pulled him down again.

Despair filled her heart anew, but a dream led her a third time to the old woman's house. She went there, and the wise woman gave her a golden spinning wheel, comforted her, and said, "Everything is not yet fulfilled. Wait until the full moon comes, then take the spinning wheel, sit on the bank, and spin the spool full. When you have done this place the spinning wheel at the water's edge, and you will see what will happen. The woman did everything exactly as she had been told. As soon as the full moon appeared she carried the golden spinning wheel to the bank, and span diligently until she was out of flax, and the spool was completely filled with thread.

She had scarcely placed the wheel on the bank when there was a more violent motion than before from the water's depth. Then a powerful wave rushed up and carried the wheel away with it. Immediately the head and the whole body of her husband emerged in a waterspout. He quickly jumped to the bank, caught his wife by the hand, and fled. They had gone only a little distance when the entire millpond arose with a terrible roar, then with terrible force streamed out across the countryside.

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

The fugitives saw death before their eyes, when the wife in her terror called out for the old woman to help them, and they were instantly transformed, she into a toad, he into a frog. The flood which had overtaken them could not destroy them, but it separated them and carried them far away. When the water receded and they both reached dry land again, their human forms returned again, but neither knew where the other one was.

They found themselves among strange people who did not know their native land. High mountains and deep valleys lay between them. In order to earn a living, they both had to herd sheep.

For long years they drove their flocks through fields and woods, and were filled with sorrow and longing. One day when spring had once again broken forth on the earth, they both went out with their flocks, and as chance would have it, they moved toward one another. He saw a herd on a distant mountainside and drove his sheep toward it.

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