Every year, we have this Earth Fair at the park. It pops up for Friday and Saturday with a lot of different booths and venders. Here's the animals that showed up this year, only mentioning the booths that did have animals:
Barns and surrounding:
Pine River Nature Center:
Eastern Red-Backed Salamander
Harvester Ants
"Life under a rotting log" bin you could dig through: I saw earthworms and red fowl mites, lady in booth said there were also isopods and centipedes in there that have been dug up prior
Friends of the Saint Clair River:
Bins similar to the one at Pine River Nature Center's booth, but with pond muck. Probably more, but what I witness putting my spoon through there was a large tadpole and tiny aquatic beetles.
The Science Jar:
A similar jar of pond muck that the owner told me contained cyclops plankton and rotifers
Pine River Bee Keeping Club:
Western Honeybees (first time I've ever seen them bring live bees)
Huron-Clinton Metroparks Van:
Two Domestic Ducklings, Khaki Campbell and Pekin. First time I've ever been greeted with live animals entering that ubiquitous-at-Michigan-nature-events traveling van of theirs.
Saint Clair County MSU 4-H Extension:
0.3 adult Chickens. One was a Silkie, others I believe are Silkie Mixes.
Many baby Chicks, some looked like Polishes
More Domestic Ducklings; looked like a mixture of Pekins, Rouens, Khaki Campbells, and Cayugas
Three Goats Soap:
1.3 Nubian goats, 2 are kids
Elsewhere:
Visitor Center:
Juvenile Lake Sturgeon
Butterfly pavillion: like every year, too crowded for me to enter. I spotted from a distance Monarch Butterflies, Cercopia Moths, Giant Swallowtails, and maybe a Question Mark Butterfly.
Blue Water Audubon Society (under tent):
Golden Retriever tagged along with one of the workers. Hey, I'm counting him for the species list.
Avian Experience Bird Show:
0.1 Red-Tailed Hawk
0.1 American Kestrel
0.1 Bald Eagle
While not present, I talked to the handler after the show and she said she also has 1.0 Great Horned Owl, 1.0 Turkey Vulture, and multiple Broad-Winged Hawks.
Bugs On Wheels:
This was a traveling arthropod exhibit that I was completely new to encountering despite it apparently having made the rounds in Michigan for a while.
African Giant Millipedes (I actually got to hold one)
Chilean Rose-Hair Tarantula
Asian Forest Scorpion
Giant Vietnamese Centipede
1.0 Giant Stag Beetle
"Jumping Spider" (if anyone wants to help with ID, it was orange and black and pretty big by jumper standards) (EDIT: Per some Google, maybe Phiddipus clarus?)
Goliath Birdeater
Blue Death Feigning Beetles
Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches
Barns and surrounding:
Pine River Nature Center:
Eastern Red-Backed Salamander
Harvester Ants
"Life under a rotting log" bin you could dig through: I saw earthworms and red fowl mites, lady in booth said there were also isopods and centipedes in there that have been dug up prior
Friends of the Saint Clair River:
Bins similar to the one at Pine River Nature Center's booth, but with pond muck. Probably more, but what I witness putting my spoon through there was a large tadpole and tiny aquatic beetles.
The Science Jar:
A similar jar of pond muck that the owner told me contained cyclops plankton and rotifers
Pine River Bee Keeping Club:
Western Honeybees (first time I've ever seen them bring live bees)
Huron-Clinton Metroparks Van:
Two Domestic Ducklings, Khaki Campbell and Pekin. First time I've ever been greeted with live animals entering that ubiquitous-at-Michigan-nature-events traveling van of theirs.
Saint Clair County MSU 4-H Extension:
0.3 adult Chickens. One was a Silkie, others I believe are Silkie Mixes.
Many baby Chicks, some looked like Polishes
More Domestic Ducklings; looked like a mixture of Pekins, Rouens, Khaki Campbells, and Cayugas
Three Goats Soap:
1.3 Nubian goats, 2 are kids
Elsewhere:
Visitor Center:
Juvenile Lake Sturgeon
Butterfly pavillion: like every year, too crowded for me to enter. I spotted from a distance Monarch Butterflies, Cercopia Moths, Giant Swallowtails, and maybe a Question Mark Butterfly.
Blue Water Audubon Society (under tent):
Golden Retriever tagged along with one of the workers. Hey, I'm counting him for the species list.
Avian Experience Bird Show:
0.1 Red-Tailed Hawk
0.1 American Kestrel
0.1 Bald Eagle
While not present, I talked to the handler after the show and she said she also has 1.0 Great Horned Owl, 1.0 Turkey Vulture, and multiple Broad-Winged Hawks.
Bugs On Wheels:
This was a traveling arthropod exhibit that I was completely new to encountering despite it apparently having made the rounds in Michigan for a while.
African Giant Millipedes (I actually got to hold one)
Chilean Rose-Hair Tarantula
Asian Forest Scorpion
Giant Vietnamese Centipede
1.0 Giant Stag Beetle
"Jumping Spider" (if anyone wants to help with ID, it was orange and black and pretty big by jumper standards) (EDIT: Per some Google, maybe Phiddipus clarus?)
Goliath Birdeater
Blue Death Feigning Beetles
Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches
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