Spring Fever has hit us all hard this week. It's finally warm and beautiful outside so we have started doing some morning nature/dog walks to see what is up, flying around and back from the south. We've seen many song birds back. I think the ospreys are back, but we haven't been to the nesting sight yet. We've just seen what I think are them flying in the distance. We've also seen yellow finch, red-winged blackbirds, robins, sparrows (of course), starlings, a tit mouse, and many more.
The grass is turning green, the river has flooded (big time) and is starting to subside, and the tulips, crocuses and daffodils are flowering now. This is the best time of the year to be homeschooling because, unlike the classroom teacher, we can take out studies outdoors which I plan to do some next week. I think we need to see what the flooding did to the park It really flooded this year, right up to the baseball grandstand on the other side of the park. It should make a good nature assignment. We can discuss the good and bad effects of spring flooding on the land, etc. It should be a fun week.
