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Nature Study: Backyard Birding and Squirrels

We've been enjoying the newness of Spring and all the birds that have been visiting our bird feeder.  We have our feeder right outside our back door where the boys can see it from the kitchen table.  We also have a hummingbird feeder right outside our front window that we can see from the living room. Here are some of the birds that we have seen: Black-Capped Chickadee House Finch White-Breasted Nuthatch Dark-Eyed Junco Blue Jay Common Crow Mew Gull American Robin Anna's Hummingbird House Finches American Robin Chickadee Little Buddy has been bugging us to get a bird bath after reading about them in one of the kids' birding books we got at the library.  Not sure if we'll do that or not this year, but we would like to make our yard more bird-friendly.  We don't have many trees in our yard, but we're thinking of planting some sunflowers. We also get visited by a lot of ground squirrels.  They also frequented our bird feeder until we mo...

Nature Study: Ducks

We have a wonderful park near our house that has two beautiful ponds that is often frequented by ducks.  Little Buddy and Button love to go and watch them.  Little Buddy continues to gain interest in them, and I'm looking forward to teaching him more about the different kinds of ducks that frequent our home.  Button is finding it interesting that they say "Quack!" Button's View I love that this gorgeous pond is about a quarter mile from our home. Little Buddy's View Mama's view.  Like my new rainboots? I'll finish with a little movie with my boys enjoying the ducks...