Category Archives: animals
Homemade bird feeder
Eagle watching… and an up close and personal owl!
Taking better bird pictures
Northern Flicker
Monarch taggingΒ
We got to be citizen scientists today! We went to The Weldon Springs Interpretive Center where we learned how to catch a butterfly so it can be tagged! Edison caught the first butterfly… in fact he caught two at once! Simone was overjoyed when she finally caught her butterfly!! Andre was sneaky and quiet which …
Rescuing Fredrick the hummingbird!Β
Building a bird nest

We went to the Rockwood Reservation for a class on bird nests! After a fabulous presentation on the four type of nests (cavity, cup, pendulum, and platform), the kids went outside to see some actual nests! Red-shouldered hawk nest way up in the tree… And a cup nest under the porch roof… Then it was time …