lego lego everywhere :)

Last week we got an amazing gift from the best mail lady EVER. It arrived in our front porch one afternoon...i thought Wesley was going to have a heart attack! Two big boxes of Star Wars Lego that belonged to her son and he was ready to give up. We were very grateful, it made every ones week.

There are so many neat parts that hinge and connect, Wesley is in LOVE!

Isobel says this is "the green owl"

birds, birds, birds

My Favourite visitor, we're hoping they'll make a nest in the backyard again this year!

The last few months we've had lots of birds in the front yard, some everyday, some just stopping in for a peek.  We have between 10 and 20 morning doves everyday, a little group of 5 chickadees and a white breasted nuthatch, and in the past few weeks the migrating birds have been stopping by! I've been using the birds to keep the kids busy. They could them and make Tally's, they look them up in the books, and they even try and spell them out. The Cornell lab of ornithology  has been amazing for resources, the kids love to listen to the bird calls and guess who they are and they're pretty good at it too! We joined Nest Watch and we're hoping to find a nest to observe.

A red tailed Hawk came a few times, trying to catch snack



Dave tail :)



Nut hatch

 

Grackles and Red winged black birds arrive hungry one afternoon a few weeks ago

 

 

Walking the water fowl

The last few months we've been trying to keep busy in the last of the snow and cold weather. March is always a hard month, everyone is done with the cold, putting on snow pants and mittens. But we seem to have made it and there are signs of spring everywhere :) We've been busy...

 building snow forts...




watching the birds



 

 

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 walking the water fowl.

 

 

 We even hit the sugar bush...

 



 

I sure hope that April is warmer then March, Wesley has big plans for the garden and says he will be building a pond in the back yard. We're also on the look out for some birds nests as we plan on doing a bird nest reporting program online. So i'll keep you posted on our spring fun :)