INTERACTING WITH WILDLIFE: How to spend a day with the 
kids enjoying wildlife... we have details on Passport to 
Texas.

This is Passport to Texas

Most of us get pretty excited over wildlife -- even the 
critters we find in our own backyards. Richard HILE-brun, 
with Wildlife Diversity says contact with these creatures 
enriches our lives.

62 -- The best thing to take with you when you go into wildlife 
habitat is something to enjoy wildlife with -- whether it's a digital 
camera, or a pair of binoculars, or a field guide. That way you can 
observe the wildlife, learn a little bit about it, and maybe even have 
some fun in terms of a challenge, or a game, or a scavenger hunt. 
I'm intrigued by this scavenger hunt idea. Tell us how we might 
do something like that. Well, one of my favorite things to do with 
young kids is to give them a set of objectives. I want you to find a 
bug. For older kids, I want you to find a butterfly, I want you to find 
a moth, I want you to find this kind of caterpillar ... I want you to 
observe ten different types of songbirds, and I tell me what they eat 
by what kind of bill they have. When you give them a challenge it 
becomes a game, and they get into it and they get excited. Before 
you know it, they spent their whole day interacting with nature; 
searching, discovering, developing a sense of wonder with wildlife. 
And that sense of discovery is what endears them to nature and 
wildlife and conservation as adults.
 
The Wildlife and sport fish restoration program supports 
our series and is celebrating 75 years of funding diverse 
conservation projects throughout Texas ... 

For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti.












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