Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Nature Study Club Post 9

Continuing with the flying creatures of the fifth day theme, the kids got to build and paint a bird feeder yesterday for nature study.
I found the feeder at Michaels' two summers ago. All we need it to do was put it together using a hot glue gun and a few nails, I did that part. The kids painted the feeder and added the seeds to it.
We wanted it close to the house to give us a chance to see the birds closer but so far no birds have come, maybe we will move it to the smaller tree in our yard. We already have two ground feeders there.
Our first feeders, there is a dark eyed Junco eating the seeds, that's all we get, sometimes we'll get a male and female Cardinal and once we saw two Blue jays. We need to buy different types of seeds to attract different types of birds.