field trip 2

This past weekend, we went to a bird festival at a local wildlife refuge. We had lots of fun! We got to see a great horned owl, Eastern Screech owl, American Kestrel, Red-tailed Hawk, and Turkey vulture up close. I made a bluebird house and Trumpeter and Chickadee did teamwork and built a feeder. The bugs ate us alive! Also, we went exploring in the brackish water...that's water that has both fresh and salt water mixed. I found a couple of shrimp and some sort of beetle and Trumpeter caught a tiny crab and an eel. The eel was FAST, it was about four inches long. Then we went to the freshwater area and I didn't get anything, but Trumpeter got a HUGE tadpole and a mud minnow. We were supposed to go look for salamanders, but it started storming so we had to go home. On the way back to our van, the refuge driver lady almost hit a deer! He ran right out in front of us, I bet he was running for shelter from the storm. There was a tent set up that had different booths with lots of neat things to look at. Some people had carvings of birds and some had pictures and a bunch of other stuff too. I liked talking with the different people and trying to guess what all the bird carvings/pictures were. My favorite was one of the photographers. Here's her website
Kim Steininger Bird Photography

Mom has pictures but they aren't on the computer yet. I'll upload them soon.

-the birdman-

Pictures from Tristate Bird Rescue

This is one of the places they keep the baby birds. They go in here after they are big enough to come out of the incubator, but not yet flying. Our own little baby nestling (AKA Park) has this same pac-n-play ;-)



Telling me how banding works



Explaining about rescuing birds after an oil spill

field trip 1

we went to Tri-state Bird Rescue for a
open house. We got to see what they feed the birds,where they put the babys,where they band & weigh the birds, where they give the birds baths, and we got to see the empty cages. the cages were empty because they move the birds for the open house.they don't want them disturbed, we got to see the live eagle cam of a baby bald eagle. we had a lot of fun. i hope someday i can volunteer there.

-the birdman-

we've been busy

Since I last blogged, we went on vacation, took lots of field trips and have done all sorts of things. I hope I can write lots of entries soon to tell you about it all. For now, mom says I can only do one entry to tell you about one of the field trips. I will give it its own entry in a minute.