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owl banding
Remember when we went bird banding last month? This month they had a special evening of owl banding for the kids! WOOT if you absolutely love baby owls!!
I want a pet owl now…..
The girls report that the owls are softest thing you’ve ever felt – even softer than their cats! But watch out, they bite!
This is such an amazing program -the “Discover the Forest’s Get Your Community Outdoors! Challenge, presented by the U.S. Forest Service, The Wilderness Society and the Ad Council is looking for ideas on how you can inspire your friends and neighbors to escape their stress and discover the great outdoors. One Grand Prize Winner will receive $1,000 to bring their idea to life as well as a $500 Frontier Airlines voucher to escape to the forest of their choice for a vacation. How amazing is that??
My idea is to give to sponsor field trips for children to go witness bird banding, learn about birds and learn what they can do to protect their habitats.
What is your idea to get your community outdoors? Go enter it!
wordless wednesday: why can’t i eat the cat food, Mean Auntie Melissa?
photo shoot sneak peek…
Remember our photo session I was stressing over?
Well, it was… easy. Those of you with kids know how miraculous this is. For us, getting all three kids smiling at the same time and looking not fake and looking vaguely in a similar direction is virtually impossible. We get one maybe once every two years or so.
So when Kate contacted me and asked if I’d be interested in a photo shoot, I said “Sure!”
But it was followed with a stern warning: “Other photo sessions have not gone well. Kids are grumpy, they have horrible fake smiles and we all end up annoyed.”
Kate laughed and said, “No worries. I got this.”
And boy did she.
The pictures are incredible. Go check out Kate’s blog and see a sneak peek of our shoot! I can’t wait to share more with you!
Kate is offering Stylized Petite Sessions with a local event planner for the Get Well Gabby Foundation. 15% of all money spent will be donated to the foundation. The sessions will be held on October 21 and 22 in Phoenixville. If you’ve been looking to get family pictures done, its a great deal! Kate’s personalization and talent can’t be beat!
bird banding
This weekend we went and watched bird banding, where we witnessed the capturing, handling and releasing wild birds. WE watched at the birds were identified, they determined their age by their feathers, they were weighed and measured… then we got to hold and handle them. It was an amazing experience – if you have the opportunity to do this with your kids, please do! When else can they do this?
releasing the birds…
Bird banding at Willistown Conservation Trust.
wordless wednesday: traffic stop for a fox hunt
sometimes rainy days are the best
Just when we were sad that our last day at the beach got rained out… we noticed not everyone was stuck inside the hotel. A pod of at least 20 dolphins was having a grand old time frolicking in the waves outside the hotel.
