Nature watching
I love getting Robert’s videos about once a week or so. And this one went right along with our focus on nature. So I thought I would share it with you all.
After watching his video I came to realize that GB and I don’t actually spend enough time just sitting and watching. GB has a need to keep moving, keep exploring. His curiosities make him wander off. But maybe my job on these nature jaunts should be to stay still and just observe. I don’t want to squash his enthusiasm by forcing him to sit still. But *I* sure like the sitting still part.
I love to watch the birds at my feeders each morning while my husband has breakfast and gets ready for work. But I’ve never paid attention to the aggressions or typical behaviors amongst the different bird species. I have noticed that woodpeckers who come to my feeders take just one seed and then fly off. I thought that was weird since they don’t really have to worry about other birds shooing them away from the feeder.
I think I’ll read the chapter in my Handbook for Nature Study about birds. Maybe I’ll gain some more insight. But I’ll keep letting GB do his explorations. That’s what he likes. And that’s really how we’ve found some of the cool things we’ve studied recently, like the gall and the copepods.
