WRN Kids – Pond Study

Pond Study at Huron Natural Area

Saturday, May 31, 2025

We went to the Huron Natural Area in Kitchener for our pond study. The weather was pretty cool.

Getting our instructions

We went to a pond there and went netting.

Netting at side of pond
Netting at side of pond

We had buckets of water to put our creatures that we caught in. We came across nymphs, frogs, different sizes of tadpoles and a big dead fish.

We had an id key of different pond invertebrates to help us id them. I was able to id one of the nymphs to be a damselfly nymph.

Bucket contents
Dead fish
Tadpole
Nymph
Leech

The best find was a large leech!

Temporary capture of a Green Frog
Green Frog
The escapee

At the end we went back, had some snacks and talked about what we found.

Reported by: Hunter