Outdoor Time!!

The girls attended their second homeschool club at Tyler Arboretum, so Liam and I had time for another nature walk while we waited for them. The birds were everywhere, and it was fun to see chickadees, sparrows, male cardinals, tufted titmice and even this funny guy:

This is a white-breasted nuthatch, whose particularly distinguishing feature is that he runs up and down trees (even upside down) and is therefore able to find nuts and seeds and bugs that other birds miss by walking only the "right" way.

No red-bellied woodpecker this time, though. I want to remember our nature journals and bird guide the next time we go!


And here's Liam, posing for a goofy picture in a chair he insisted on sitting in. :)