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Hello and welcome to Explore Beyond Your Door.
I’m Kaden and I love to explore outside.
I go for walks, or I just find a cool tree, or even just a neat spot to sit.
I look up, I look down, I look all around and I just see what I can find.
I observe everything around me.
And you never know what you’re going to find in nature, which is the best part.
So, let’s go on a nature walk together and let’s see what we can find.
Let’s explore. Come on!
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So, one place I really like to look when I’m trying to find different creatures is to roll over downed logs.
You might find snakes, so you gotta be careful.
But usually find worms, and little roly-polys.
And I just found a red-backed salamander.
It got away under that log.
So, I’m going to roll over this log and let’s see what we can find.
I just flipped over this log that has a lot of really cool mushrooms on it.
And I found this little guy trying to get away from me.
It’s a centipede.
Wow those are a lot of legs.
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Alright, well let’s try this log and see what we can see.
A worm or...
Woah – a millipede.
Ah look at that.
So remember that orange centipede we saw earlier.
This one’s a little bit different
Centipedes have one pair of legs per body segment, so one of those little lines.
But millipedes like this have two pairs of legs. So they have twice as many legs.
And millipedes are known for being slow and they burrow in the ground.
Centipedes are really fast.
Is it sleeping?
Doesn’t want to move.
Alright, let’s put you back.
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Alright, I just rolled over part of that little tree stump.
And I found something pretty cool right there under that leaf.
Look at you.
It’s a red-backed salamander.
Salamanders are born from eggs in streams
But a lot of them crawl out on land and then actually live on land.
And it’s a little blurry because this salamander is actually very small.
You can see compared to my hand.
It’s a little guy.
I’ll let it go and I’ll carefully place the log right back over it.
So it can have its little home again.
Bye, salamander.
We found some really awesome wildlife today just by looking under those logs.
We found mushrooms, a centipede, a millipede.
And my favorite was the red-backed salamander.
Well thanks for joining me as I explored outside my door.
Now it’s your turn.
Get outside and look around.
Look up, look down, look all around and just see what you can find.
You never know what’s out there and that’s what’s so exciting.
So, get out there and explore.
And I’ll see you next time.
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