It's been a week for the birds.....
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| Who are you looking at? |
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| Camera shy...or is this his better side? |
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| Me and My Gal! |
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| Who you callin' yellow? |
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| Playing Statue. |
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| Puffed Up With Pride....King of the Tree...Lord of the Flock. |
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| Snacking on the Pink Stuff. |
Now on to the furry friends...
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| Gray squirrel, gray squirrel, swish your bushy tail. |
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| Late for the fun...snow storm slowed me down...just a little. |
"Where have you seen a squirrel? Does the squirrel trot along or leap when running on the ground? Does it run straight ahead or stop at intervals for observations? How does it look? How does it act when looking to see of the coast is clear?" Handbook of Nature Study, page 236.
If you have a squirrel to observe, I highly recommend looking at Lesson 57 in the Handbook of Nature Study. There are quite a number of questions to answer and to record in your nature journal. In this section Anna Botsford Comstock also gives the account of "Furry" their pet squirrel in journal style that you might like to read for fun to your children.
Hope you enjoyed taking a look at my friends.
Barb-Harmony Art Mom
As part of Tweet and See, here is our list of February 2011 birds observed for the month:
- Mourning dove
- Acorn woodpecker
- Nuttall's woodpecker
- Northern flicker
- Oak titmouse
- White-breasted nuthatch
- American robin
- Cedar waxwing
- Spotted towhee
- California towhee
- White-crowned sparrow
- Dark-eyed junco
- House finch
- House sparrow
- Canada goose
- Western scrub jay
- Anna hummingbird
- Lesser goldfinch
- Red-shouldered hawk
- American crow
- Brewer's blackbird
- Turkey vulture
- Rock pigeon
- California quail
