The reports here in provide information to enrich and reinforce content knowledge gained as we explored and described the ecological communities and flora and fauna that we especially remarked upon during our walks. Additional information is shared on the space including the key identifiable diagnostic characteristics of species; the invasive species status; wetland species status; area of origin: associated wildlife; and habitats where these flora and fauna are found.

David Jakim has been leading nature walks with Hildur Palsdottir at Sands point preserve for the last five years. These notes from a guided nature walk are a distillation of some of the most fascinating observations, discoveries, and treasures vegetable and animal and mineral found in the field over the years.

“To give to every nothings a local habitation and a name.”