OUR ORNITHOLOGISTS

I love it when God sends little bonus’ to our school days. We began studying birds at Jared’s request. I thought it was a strange time of the year to study birds; but we were done with Astronomy and needed something to do for the next ½ of the year! {g}

Wow – I was not thinking TEXAS when we began the study. We have had a LOT of birds in our yard. We have a tree in the backyard with bird nests.

This week we are studying nesting. I kept thinking it would be fun to look up close at one of the nests but our text book talked about the federal laws on collecting nests and so we hadn’t investigated.

We’ve had quite a wind-storm last night and today. The kids discovered a nest blown out of the tree….yippee! We didn’t “collect” it – we simply observed it before picking up our yard. It was a cup nest and made with all sorts of interesting things from our yard….dog hair, red yarn, plastic streamers, ribbon….

You can see our science book here