Melissa | March 17, 2009
Really, it’s quite ridiculous how excited we’ve been today…oh joyful day!! I think the kids and I are as excited today as we were when we bought our own home. We have bluebirds in our new nestbox!!! I wasn’t sure if it would actually happen this year or not, many times it takes a couple [...]
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Melissa | March 7, 2009
This morning as the beautiful rose and lavendar colored rays of the sun crept up over the horizon, I sat outside for awhile and heard the beautiful “dawn chorus” of the birds. The temperature will climb to a sweltering 73 degrees today and skies will be mostly sunny…now that’s a good reason to sing don’t [...]
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Melissa | March 2, 2009
Attention Eastern Bluebirds!! We now have prime real estate available! Lately we’ve seen a few Eastern Bluebird sightings. For a couple of years now I’ve been wanting to hang up an Eastern Bluebird house in efforts to invite them to live in my backyard. My Dad is the resident Bluebird house maker so he made [...]
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Melissa | February 17, 2009
For me, there is nothing like the sound of the song birds singing on a warm breezy spring morning. Really, any time of year their melodies bring me a feeling of peace. This last week we spent time learning about just why it is that the beautiful birds sing. We spent some time one [...]
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Melissa | February 5, 2009
For the past two days we’ve been spending some quality time observing the birds at our feeders. Why you ask? Well, other than the obvious reason that we really enjoy watching the birds…we’ve used our observations for Math and Geography of course!! I’ve made up three spreadsheets to help with this (you can click on [...]
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Melissa | February 2, 2009
Today we launched off our official more in depth study of birds! Tufted Titmouse and Carolina Wren We started by reading Psalm 84:3-4 (my blog verse) which says: “Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young – a place near your altar, O [...]
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