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an ammonite I drew

Strange Creature Sighted by Hoisington Brook!

What is this creature in the distance? I hadn't noticed it except in the photo when my mom's camera flash highlighted its eyes!

Close-up:

I have a new science website

I have a new science website for an independent study I am doing through school. It has some cool pictures of what I've seen under a microscope and some other things. 

Festival of Birds

This is a poem I did for class in the 6th grade. I did the collage art myself. Willow, the dog mentioned in the poem, died in an apartment fire on Marks Road two days ago.

Festival of Birds

by Peter Hartwell

Fifteen turkey vultures flying low.

Sea gulls and herons feating slow.

The shore was littered with

Silvery dead fish. Alewives.

 

My mother went down to the shore

to see what the fuss was about.

Willow the dog, out with her owner,

picked up a fish and brought it to her

and dropped it at her feet.

 

The fish were Alewives,

fish that didn't belong.

They had died during the winter

and now were all washed up,

a silver tide of dead fish.

 

The heron in the creek

was the last to leave. He was

still scavenging for bits of fish.

 

Many months after that,

there were still remains of

the bird festival to be found

in the bushes and reeds.

checking out the creatures in the Hudson River

This was at the Clearwater Festival in Croton, NY. The person in the blue shirt is me.

Sea turtle rescue

I helped rescue a sick and injured sea turtle at Cocoa Beach last month. It had motor boat slices out of its shell. The sea turtle was taken to a wildlife rescue facility. People poured water on it to keep it moist during the rescue.

I iz mousecat!

Frog

This a frog I caught in Westport, NY which is upstate in the Adirondacks. He's pretty small compared to the other ones that got away or that I couldn't get because they were too far out in the water.

Amazingly Long Fish!

It's a blue, really long fish, probably as long as a really long piece of driftwood. It's called an oarfish. I went on Google and typed in "sea serpent." And I found these pictures that I will put on my weblog.

I wonder who first discovered it, washed up on the beach.

My Bat Map

Click HERE to see the whole map.Community Walk Map - Peter's Bat Map

Burgess Shale Creatures Museum

I drew a wiwaxia.

These Burgess Shale creatures are cool. Even the ones I have seen are cool. And I have seen lots of them and you had better go to the place where the ocean from before the time of the dinosaurs was. You might find fossils of Burgess Shale creatres, like the one on my web log.

I'm going to make a museum here on my weblog of Burgess Shale creatures.

The lace crab (Marrella) is cool and I think we might find a fossil if we go to the right place. [Pictures from the Smithsonian].

PLACES I'D LIKE TO GO:

The Burgess Shale
The Burgess Shale exhibit at the Royal Tyrell Museum

I ALREADY WENT TO:

The Royal Ontario Museum
The Smithsonian

I also drew a hallucigenia: