Bird study

Granddad gave us a wonderful bird feeder for Christmas last year and we've been enjoying it more and more as the Chipmunk gets older. The past few days we've been doing a lot of bird watching and studying. It's really interesting to sit and talk about which birds eat on the ground and which ones like the hanging feeder. We've been watching them open seeds with their beaks and even noticing flight patterns (the chickadees are our favorites!). Of course, you have to talk about eggs if you're going to talk about birds, so we have a little nest to play with.

Our little goldfinch has been so loved that his beak fell off somewhere!



My little man loves to know the names of things and he's been asking about every bird that comes to the feeder, so we made a little bird book to help him identify what he was seeing.




We're definitely going to keep expanding our bird feeders and studying our birds over the next few months.  I have some food experiments in mind and I think we'll try to find some clear feeders that we can attach directly to the windows.  We are also working on a little Valentine's surprise for the Chipmunk's friends and family so that they can enjoy their birds too!