National Wildlife Week

The week of March 14-20 was National Wildlife Week. Since our property is a Certified Wildlife Habitat we see a lot of wildlife...especially birds! On March 17th naturalist Jessica Tipkemper-Wolfe stopped by to present a program all about local birds.

Getting to know our chirpy neighbors:
Common backyard songbirds in our neighborhoods and at our feeders.

Ms. Jessica started off with a brief discussion about neighbors...what are they? What makes a good neighbor? Then she read a fun book called Birdsongs. She called the children up and let them pick one of the toys birds out of her basket. We listened to the song from each bird and then the children placed the birds in a nest.

Everyone enjoyed listening to the real bird songs and trying to imitate them.

Trying to match the bird to the song.

Lastly, everyone headed outside to collect goodies for the birds to thank them
for the gift of their songs and their bright, beautiful colors!