If you have noticed there has been a substantial amount of time that has gone by since my last post. ( almost a year to the day =)
You ask- Why have the website?
I ask-When you are about to have a 3rd child and all you can think about is painting, washing baby clothes, and collecting diaper donations- is the bird website really a priority?
And then once that precious 3rd child joins us- let’s see- sleep vs posting articles about sweet chirpy birds-hmm don’t really need to think twice about that one =)
Ok sorry there was a tad amount of sarcasm there =)
I was shocked and embarassed when I found out today- after figuring out how to get back into my webmail account- that my birdhouse plans were not coming up. I apologize to each and everyone of you that signed up for my free plans and were blasted with a not so nice ERROR messages =) It will be corrected by the weekend. Please continue to sign up and I will send an email to the faithful few with plans that you can use…next year =)
And I promise not to let another whole year pass before at least making a post.
Yes I still love birds, yes I still feed birds and yes I still have my nifty birdhouse that I built using those plans that I fully expected to be working!!
Now in the spring-next spring that is- I will actually put up my birdhouse(as long as child #4 isn’t on its way =))
Continue to build birdhouses so you can save birds!!!
So as I said yesterday I thought today might be more “birdy” than usual since we had our fun day at the park. We started off our day looking through National Geographic’s “Field Guide to Birds of North America”. Just a bit off light reading before breakfast. I must say the bird guides are getting better at showing the underside of birds!! I was quite impressed with the number of “in-flight” pictures of ducks, shearwaters and gulls. Now I can be sure the kids and I will be even more proficient naming the birds since what we usually see is their bellys (as they fly away from us)!
So the birding did not end there. We took our usual 20 minute walk about our neighborhood which by chance is also bird related- Quail Creek. Kids are natural birders (kind of). They are quick to see, point out and then scare away all birds that happen by our happy group. We saw Mourning Doves and House Sparrows aplenty. We walked home to “Mom did you see that bird”, “Mom I saw another bird”, “Mom SEEEEEEEE”
So just when I thought perhaps we had our fill of birds I turned on our pre-lunch TV show “Build a Word” and lo and behold they were talking about birds. It was the cutest thing. The star of the show was an egg. The other animals on the show picked the most motherly and fluffy animal to care for it while its mother was away (the sheep of course). The egg wouldn’t stay where it was put- it would jump and hop around until they solved that problem with a nest (or if you want to stay with the theme of this blog- a birdhouse). So after a night in the nest the sheep awoke to the horror that the egg had a crack in it. All the animals gathered around trying to figure out what had happened. The duck of course just laughed and said that the egg was ready to hatch and voila it did. Oh happy day- the little bird emerged just as mother bird swooped in to claim its baby. And all the while these characters are teaching young ones to spell. GOSH I am tired just writing this.
Well I couldn’t let all this good bird training go to waste so my 3 year-old and I sat down after lunch and did a fun bird craft. We took muffin cups and flattened them out and snipped away at the muffin cup to where it had tail feathers and wings. Then we glued these partial birds onto paper leaving the wings free. With a marker we made necks and heads and eyes. Pretty cool craft =)
So that was just the first half of my day. What did you do today?
Build a birdhouse, save a bird!
