Don Dicisco Nature Festival in Vermont

Julie at the ecology table	Kids and parents having fun	Kids and parents checking out the bugs	Dan's bird walk
Dan leading the ecology walk	Julie	Crowd gathering for the raptor display	Red-tail wants to fly
Red-tail at rest	It's a buteo:-)	It's a falcon:-)	Kestrel flapping
Great Horned Owl	He can hear really well	Bagpipe band	Bagpipe band
Great Horned hooting	Great Horned close up	Three-banded Lady Beetle - Coccinella trifasciata	New England Asters - Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
Familiar Bluet - Enallagma civile (male)	New England Asters - Symphyotrichum novae-angliae	New England Asters - Symphyotrichum novae-angliae	Neokolla hieroglyphica
10197 - Gray hooded-owlet - Cucullia florea	European Paper Wasp - Polistes dominulus	Northern Paper Wasp - Polistes fuscatus	Banded Argiope - Argiope trifasciata
Art boards can be good hiding places	Young artist at work	Young artist getting her paint	Hay bale hut
Hay bale hut	the big top	finished poster	lots of color
work of a future great artist	Beridinae (larva) possibly Allognosta sp.	Stratiomys sp. larva	8129 - Woolly Bear - Pyrrharctia isabella
Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle pupa - Harmonia axyridis	Polished Lady Beetle - Cycloneda munda	Monarch (Danaus plexippus)	Rick starting the snake show
Rick with a Hognose snake	Hognose snake	another colorful snake	another snake
California King Snake	a different looking California King	albino snake	Rick with a tropical snake
tropical snake all stretched out	Boa Constrictor	Carpet Python	Scrub Python
Scrub Python wrapping up	Carpet Python	Who said snakes are scarry?	Carpet Python hat
Big snake, little girl	Big snake, big girl	And finally, another little girl with the big Boa	Camelback Mountain
Tropisternus sp.	Coptotomus lenticus/longulus?	Laccophilus maculosus	Libellulidae larva
Xystodesmidae - Sigmoria trimaculata	Making fresh cider	Neat dragonfly	Tom at the ecology table
The start of the ecology walk	bugs anyone?	A good laugh for the group	future entomologists
Kids are braver than the adults	Rick's got everyone's attention	A crowd pleaser	Getting a close look
One of the big snakes	Two big ones	The biggest was saved for last