It was Easter, part two, at Webb Mountain Discovery Zone on East Village Road Saturday morning when an event that had been rained out during the actual Easter weekend got underway.
It was the second annual Webb Mountain Discovery Zone egg hunt, not for plastic eggs filled with candy, but for boiled eggs colored by volunteers to resemble the eggs of actual birds that live at Webb Mountain, including eastern bluebird, falcon, pheasant, blackbird and hawk.
There was no candy to be seen, although the Easter Bunny made an appearance.
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"We want to get the kids in nature and having fun, looking around and finding things, heightening their awareness skills, and get them to try to enjoy nature," said Tom Ellbogen, volunteer director of the Webb Mountain Discovery Zone.
It was not a contest, and the object was not to collect the most eggs, but try to find one of each type. Volunteers hid the eggs along the hiking trails of the discovery zone in the morning.
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"We want them out and having fun in nature," Ellbogen said, and the kids seemed to get the idea pretty quickly.
"Yea, it's fun learning about all the different eggs and that stuff," said Andrew Maslar, 11, who attended the event with his brothers and sister.
After collecting eggs for 30 minutes, they returned to the front of the discovery zone for a presentation by Deb Galasso of the Connecticut Audubon Society in Fairfield, who showed the kids and their parents two birds of prey: a barn owl and a hawk.
"The two birds I brought are not very common around here, so it's fun to learn about where they spend their winters," Galasso said before she took the birds of prey from their cages.
There were four separate egg hunts throughout the morning, using only a portion of the four miles of hiking trails at the 170-acre outdoor learning center.
For more information about Webb Mountain visit: webbmountaindiscoveryzone.com.
