Birds
We had some robins build their nest above the light outside the garage. The girls loved watching them grow up and then fly around the yard for a few weeks while their parents taught them all about life. The robins especially like hunting for worms in our garden.
We had a couple of black-capped chickadees build their nest inside the trunk of our plum tree. Here is one of the babies poking his head out of the hole. The next morning after taking this picture, David and the girls were sleeping outside in a tent, and something crashed into the tent and made a log of commotion. We think it was probably the babies flying out of the nest for the first time and crashing into the tent, which was not too far away.
We have really enjoyed all the colorful birds. L got a bird identification book and binnoculars for her birthday, and we have all put them to good use, but especially her. She has been really interested in all the birds up here from the beginning. She and I both discovered a new bird that we hadn't seen before, on the same day, but independently. It turned out to be this black-headed grosbeak.
She can even tell you the differences between the males and females. Here is a picture David took of a western tanager.
This is what L wanted to tell all her grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins:
“I have a new friend, who is Jackson, and he has a bike that doesn't have training wheels, just like me. And I have a friend Markelle, who has a two wheeler bike just like me and Jackson. And I also like my friend Kenzie. I like my new net, so I can catch lots of butterflies. There are lots of butterflies up here. My friends are 5, 9 and 12 years old. We have new birds that we have never heard about, like one is the tanagers, red-winged black birds, and the grosbeak, and the black-capped chickadee, which is the who-who bird. The who-who bird is my favorite, and it talks to me and talks to me and talks to me every day. And I just go who-who back to it. And I learned that robins have white kind of by their wings. Oh, and there is one more bird that I love, it has a white head and the rest of it is light brown, but we couldn't find out what kind of a bird it is yet.”
We had a couple of black-capped chickadees build their nest inside the trunk of our plum tree. Here is one of the babies poking his head out of the hole. The next morning after taking this picture, David and the girls were sleeping outside in a tent, and something crashed into the tent and made a log of commotion. We think it was probably the babies flying out of the nest for the first time and crashing into the tent, which was not too far away.
We have really enjoyed all the colorful birds. L got a bird identification book and binnoculars for her birthday, and we have all put them to good use, but especially her. She has been really interested in all the birds up here from the beginning. She and I both discovered a new bird that we hadn't seen before, on the same day, but independently. It turned out to be this black-headed grosbeak.
She can even tell you the differences between the males and females. Here is a picture David took of a western tanager.
This is what L wanted to tell all her grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins:
“I have a new friend, who is Jackson, and he has a bike that doesn't have training wheels, just like me. And I have a friend Markelle, who has a two wheeler bike just like me and Jackson. And I also like my friend Kenzie. I like my new net, so I can catch lots of butterflies. There are lots of butterflies up here. My friends are 5, 9 and 12 years old. We have new birds that we have never heard about, like one is the tanagers, red-winged black birds, and the grosbeak, and the black-capped chickadee, which is the who-who bird. The who-who bird is my favorite, and it talks to me and talks to me and talks to me every day. And I just go who-who back to it. And I learned that robins have white kind of by their wings. Oh, and there is one more bird that I love, it has a white head and the rest of it is light brown, but we couldn't find out what kind of a bird it is yet.”
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