Last week, the 1st St. Mary's Over Beaver Scouts visited Fen Drayton Lakes for a lake dipping session. Read on to find out what they discovered in the lake!
Max - Aged 7
The landscape at Fen Drayton Lakes is very green and very pretty. We had a look around and a little walk and then we collected our nets and went to a wooden platform for pond dipping. This was next to a lake. The weather was kind of cloudy, windy and sunny all at the same time. I caught a water louse that walked on the bottom of my tray and two damselfly nymphs. And a really big pond snail and a leech. The final thing I caught was a weird looking slug thing in a long tubey shell that was a caddis fly larva. Then we sat at the picnic tables and looked at what we caught. A lady from the RSPB helped us. Finally we put our nets back, handed out Beaver badges and headed home.
Ben - Aged 7
My name is Ben and I am a seven year old Beaver Scout with the 1st St. Mary's Over Scouts Group. On Tuesday we went to Fen Drayton Lakes and went pond dipping. It was really good and we had a great time. The platform that we had to stand on was slightly flooded and our feet got very wet and muddy! We found a lot of different things and I thought the most interesting one was a water scorpion, I also found a leech. My mummy said I looked like I'd had a really good time when I got home because I was wet and muddy, but I was still smiling and really excited about the visit.
Damselfly nymph