Even though my house is right in the middle of town, we get our share of wild life here at daycare! We get all kinds of little creatures coming to visit. Wild ducks fly in and stay for days, many different species of squirrels, chipmunks, and an occasional opossums may lumber through the yard once in a while looking for slugs to eat. Almost every different kind of bird has been at our bird feeder from chickadees to buntings, and some stay year round coming to eat every day as well as feeding their babies in front of our big windows. The children have seen and can identify many species of birds and butterflies and this past winter and spring, we even have the very rare western bluebird grace us with its beauty! My mother would have been green with envy about that:)
Just the other day, we caught a glimpse of a sweet little bunny out eating my newly planted flowers in the back yard! And now, each day since, this bunny has come to say "hi" and eat a zinnia breakfast, while the kids eat their breakfast and watch him/her out the back window. It's getting used to us and is now a fixture in my back yard! This was a surprising treat for all of us. So fun and exciting and maybe it will have some baby bunnies for us to see as well? There will be opportunities for more flowers, but having a real cottontail bunny come and stay is an honor. Someday, maybe I'll able to take its picture if it will hold still long enough! UPDATE: Got him!
I am an avid bird watcher and I love insects, butterflies and flowers. I can't help but impart this love I have for simple backyard nature to my childcare children, and maybe when they all will grow up, they will love the smallest of God's creatures as much as I do!
Just the other day, we caught a glimpse of a sweet little bunny out eating my newly planted flowers in the back yard! And now, each day since, this bunny has come to say "hi" and eat a zinnia breakfast, while the kids eat their breakfast and watch him/her out the back window. It's getting used to us and is now a fixture in my back yard! This was a surprising treat for all of us. So fun and exciting and maybe it will have some baby bunnies for us to see as well? There will be opportunities for more flowers, but having a real cottontail bunny come and stay is an honor. Someday, maybe I'll able to take its picture if it will hold still long enough! UPDATE: Got him!
I am an avid bird watcher and I love insects, butterflies and flowers. I can't help but impart this love I have for simple backyard nature to my childcare children, and maybe when they all will grow up, they will love the smallest of God's creatures as much as I do!
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