MY DAY AT THE GARDEN

As you explore NYBG with your family, use this Field Guide to record and remember what you find.

Draw a picture of your day at the Garden here:

Barnsley Beds

The Barnsley Beds are a beautiful display of fruits and vegetables found on a farm.

Can you find these crops growing in the Garden?

The crops growing in the garden attract many insects - both friend and foe. Can you find an interesting insect visiting the organic crops? Draw your favorite garden creature here.

Beans Zucchini Tomato Onion

Leaves! Leaves! Leaves!

Many different types of trees live in the Thain Family Forest, and all have different shaped leaves. Look around the forest and fi nd two interesting leaves to draw. Use the key below to help identify the ones you choose.

Look around the forest; choose a leaf to draw.

KeyNotice that all plants have two names: a common name and a scientifi c name. Scientifi c names are always in Latin so scientists from anywhere in the world can talk about plants using the same language.

Summer Nature Hunt

As you walk around the Native Plant Garden and the Wild Wetland Trail, you’ll see many different grasses, fl owers, insects, animals, and natural objects.

How Many Can You Find?✓ Check four in a row (up, down or diagonally)

Red OakQuercus rubra

American BeechFagus grandifolia

White OakQuercus alba

Sweet BirchBetula lenta

SweetgumLiquidambar styracifl ua

Shagbark HickoryCarya ovata

Sugar MapleAcer saccharum

Tulip PoplarLiriodendron tulipifera Illustrations and lettering by Samantha Dion Baker

Wetland Bingo!How many of these plants and animals can you find along the Mitsubishi Wild Wetland Trail?

Find any four across, down, or diagonal and you have wetland bingo!

A Wetland Poem

Be quiet and still in the wetland.

Croaking frogs

Chirping birds

Rustling muskrats

Quacking ducks

Creaking winds through the cattails

Shhhhhhhh…

These are the sounds of a wetland.

In the space below, write down what you

see, hear, and smell as you walk along the

Mitsubishi Wild Wetland Trail.

Wetland Bingo!How many of these plants and animals can you find along the Mitsubishi Wild Wetland Trail?

Find any four across, down, or diagonal and you have wetland bingo!

A Wetland Poem

Be quiet and still in the wetland.

Croaking frogs

Chirping birds

Rustling muskrats

Quacking ducks

Creaking winds through the cattails

Shhhhhhhh…

These are the sounds of a wetland.

In the space below, write down what you

see, hear, and smell as you walk along the

Mitsubishi Wild Wetland Trail.

Wetland Bingo!How many of these plants and animals can you find along the Mitsubishi Wild Wetland Trail?

Find any four across, down, or diagonal and you have wetland bingo!

A Wetland Poem

Be quiet and still in the wetland.

Croaking frogs

Chirping birds

Rustling muskrats

Quacking ducks

Creaking winds through the cattails

Shhhhhhhh…

These are the sounds of a wetland.

In the space below, write down what you

see, hear, and smell as you walk along the

Mitsubishi Wild Wetland Trail.

Wetland Bingo!How many of these plants and animals can you find along the Mitsubishi Wild Wetland Trail?

Find any four across, down, or diagonal and you have wetland bingo!

A Wetland Poem

Be quiet and still in the wetland.

Croaking frogs

Chirping birds

Rustling muskrats

Quacking ducks

Creaking winds through the cattails

Shhhhhhhh…

These are the sounds of a wetland.

In the space below, write down what you

see, hear, and smell as you walk along the

Mitsubishi Wild Wetland Trail.

Wetland Bingo!How many of these plants and animals can you find along the Mitsubishi Wild Wetland Trail?

Find any four across, down, or diagonal and you have wetland bingo!

A Wetland Poem

Be quiet and still in the wetland.

Croaking frogs

Chirping birds

Rustling muskrats

Quacking ducks

Creaking winds through the cattails

Shhhhhhhh…

These are the sounds of a wetland.

In the space below, write down what you

see, hear, and smell as you walk along the

Mitsubishi Wild Wetland Trail.

Wetland Bingo!How many of these plants and animals can you find along the Mitsubishi Wild Wetland Trail?

Find any four across, down, or diagonal and you have wetland bingo!

A Wetland Poem

Be quiet and still in the wetland.

Croaking frogs

Chirping birds

Rustling muskrats

Quacking ducks

Creaking winds through the cattails

Shhhhhhhh…

These are the sounds of a wetland.

In the space below, write down what you

see, hear, and smell as you walk along the

Mitsubishi Wild Wetland Trail.

Wetland Bingo!How many of these plants and animals can you find along the Mitsubishi Wild Wetland Trail?

Find any four across, down, or diagonal and you have wetland bingo!

A Wetland Poem

Be quiet and still in the wetland.

Croaking frogs

Chirping birds

Rustling muskrats

Quacking ducks

Creaking winds through the cattails

Shhhhhhhh…

These are the sounds of a wetland.

In the space below, write down what you

see, hear, and smell as you walk along the

Mitsubishi Wild Wetland Trail.

Wetland Bingo!How many of these plants and animals can you find along the Mitsubishi Wild Wetland Trail?

Find any four across, down, or diagonal and you have wetland bingo!

A Wetland Poem

Be quiet and still in the wetland.

Croaking frogs

Chirping birds

Rustling muskrats

Quacking ducks

Creaking winds through the cattails

Shhhhhhhh…

These are the sounds of a wetland.

In the space below, write down what you

see, hear, and smell as you walk along the

Mitsubishi Wild Wetland Trail.

Wetland Bingo!How many of these plants and animals can you find along the Mitsubishi Wild Wetland Trail?

Find any four across, down, or diagonal and you have wetland bingo!

A Wetland Poem

Be quiet and still in the wetland.

Croaking frogs

Chirping birds

Rustling muskrats

Quacking ducks

Creaking winds through the cattails

Shhhhhhhh…

These are the sounds of a wetland.

In the space below, write down what you

see, hear, and smell as you walk along the

Mitsubishi Wild Wetland Trail.

Wetland Bingo!How many of these plants and animals can you find along the Mitsubishi Wild Wetland Trail?

Find any four across, down, or diagonal and you have wetland bingo!

A Wetland Poem

Be quiet and still in the wetland.

Croaking frogs

Chirping birds

Rustling muskrats

Quacking ducks

Creaking winds through the cattails

Shhhhhhhh…

These are the sounds of a wetland.

In the space below, write down what you

see, hear, and smell as you walk along the

Mitsubishi Wild Wetland Trail.

Wetland Bingo!How many of these plants and animals can you find along the Mitsubishi Wild Wetland Trail?

Find any four across, down, or diagonal and you have wetland bingo!

A Wetland Poem

Be quiet and still in the wetland.

Croaking frogs

Chirping birds

Rustling muskrats

Quacking ducks

Creaking winds through the cattails

Shhhhhhhh…

These are the sounds of a wetland.

In the space below, write down what you

see, hear, and smell as you walk along the

Mitsubishi Wild Wetland Trail.

Wetland Bingo!How many of these plants and animals can you find along the Mitsubishi Wild Wetland Trail?

Find any four across, down, or diagonal and you have wetland bingo!

A Wetland Poem

Be quiet and still in the wetland.

Croaking frogs

Chirping birds

Rustling muskrats

Quacking ducks

Creaking winds through the cattails

Shhhhhhhh…

These are the sounds of a wetland.

In the space below, write down what you

see, hear, and smell as you walk along the

Mitsubishi Wild Wetland Trail.

acorn

sweetgum

turtle

wading birds

fern

water lily

boulder

frog

red-wingedblackbird

duck

freshwater marsh

butterfl y

dragonfl y

cattails

hawk

muskrat