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Nature Scouts on the hunt at Millerton’s Rudd Pond

Nature Scouts on the hunt at Millerton’s Rudd Pond
During their nature walk on Thursday, July 15, a group of children from the area stopped to inspect a snake skin that had recently been shed near Rudd Pond in Millerton. 
Photo by Kristin McClune

MILLERTON — Summertime has been both educational and fun for several dozen children between the ages of 3 and 12 who were able to learn more about creatures living in the wild through Nature Scouts at Rudd Pond. 

The NorthEast-Millerton Library program, in collaboration with the Taconic State Park-Rudd Pond, the Sharon Audubon Society and the Amenia Free Library, will feature creepy-crawly insects on Thursday, Aug. 5, the pond itself on Friday, Aug. 6, and our feather friends on Thursday, Aug. 12. 

All sessions run from 3 to 4 p.m. and begin at the Rudd Pond playground. 

— Carol Kneeland

Millerton News

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