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-
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