Critter Watch

I just had to post this- it's an eagle sitting on a fence post in our horse pasture. It's a young one, probably 2 years old. It's hard to tell from the fuzzy picture, but it IS an eagle. We watched it with binoculars for about 20 minutes. It was watching the grass for mice and rabbits. Very cool!

Week of September 27, 2010

This week had absolutely perfect weather for our first week of Nature Club. The kids were as excited as I was to get outside and look for nature. But first we had to talk about what natural and man-made meant, some terms I will use all year.
It was very easy to find a lot of natural items on the ground and happily, not so easy to find man-made items (trash). We had fun taping things to a poster and very quickly picked up the idea of what was too big or heavy to tape down. Also, we decided NOT to tape live insects to the poster because we didn't want to kill them.
P.S. I'm sorry Starla is upside down! I can't figure out how to turn it over or delete it! Will learn by the next post!
Gorgeous days like these make -20 degrees more tolerable!