This little guy was flying over the campsite and must have noticed we were sitting at the picinic table eating. We've never before had a seagull come beg for food at a camp site, so this was a unique experience. We had lots of grapes and buns and enjoyed sharing with our seagull friend as well as the squirrels.
The red squirrels, which I mentioned, were quite loud and packed with personality. We kept giving them grapes, because they were really cute and asking so nicely, and also because we were intrigued by the way they ate them. They held the grapes in their 
hands, rotating the grape around so they could peel it. Once they got the peel off, they would eat the rest of the grape. They also tried to hide several of the grapes, both peeled and unpeeled, in little cracks and crevices in the tree bark. The short video, while jerky (lots of caffeine), shows one of them eating a piece of bun.
As always, we spent much of our hiking time searching for frogs and turtles. We spotted many frogs, but she wasn't able to catch any. One of the frogs was unusual and we couldn't identify it (first picture). She almost caught it, but it was just too 
fast and slippery for her (second picture). When we got back home, we were able to determine that it was a wood frog, thanks to the WI DNR's webpage. It's a nice, informative web page for kids. That will probably be the only nice thing I ever say about the WI DNR!
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