Nature Walk

On a typical nature walk, for us, we are out 30-45min and we poke around and look at everything that interests us. Sometimes, after our walk, we want to know more about something we found (like dragonflies)and we come in and look it up or draw a picture about what we saw.

Today Benjamin was not feeling his best and he was not his usual curious self. We still enjoyed going for a walk, seeing animals, and just being outdoors in general.

"Our Birds"
We have been very fortunate to watch these birds that live close to our entry. We saw mommy bird building her nest and then sitting patiently on her eggs. We saw the babies just after they hatched and watched as mommy bird fed them (Benjamin named the baby birds Benjamin and Jonathan). We helped one back into the nest after it tumbled out (unharmed) and every day, actually several times a day, we go say hi and listen to their chirping.


Checking the lake for alligators. We've not ever seen any, but you never know in Florida.



Heron.


Mommy duck and ducklings.


Examining the berries on the tree that I told him never to eat.


Mr. Squirrel.